When Elizabeth Chivers was born on 12 January 1874, in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States, her father, William Henry Chivers, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Elvira Edwards, was 24. She married Alfred W Brown about 1890, in Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She died on 1 November 1898, at the age of 24, and was buried in Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States.