When Lucretia Adaline Voris was born on 15 November 1847, in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States, her father, George Washington Voorhees, was 31 and her mother, Anna Sumner, was 33. She married Samuel J Sharpe on 20 April 1869, in Fremont, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Elkhorn Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1910 and Yakima, Washington, United States in 1930. She died on 15 February 1939, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Grandview, Yakima, Washington, United States.