When Minerva Shriver was born on 8 August 1848, her father, Joseph Henry Shriver, was 35 and her mother, Rebecca Jane Wright, was 37. She married Robert Anderson Wear in 1871. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Battelle District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Monongalia, West Virginia, United States in 1900. She died on 4 July 1936, in Newcomerstown, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Belmont, Belmont, Ohio, United States.