When Johana Schwarber was born on 9 June 1868, in Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, her father, Johannes Schwaber, was 33 and her mother, Anna Barbara Schneider, was 29. She married Arthur Lincoln Davis on 29 September 1887, in Lincoln, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Salt Lake City Ward 5, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. She died on 4 April 1943, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.