When Rachel Urena McBride was born in January 1891, in Crawford, Ohio, United States, her father, Stephen Alexander McBride, was 34 and her mother, Susannah Bash, was 32. She married Charles Everett Jellison. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Noble Township, Jay, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Pike Township, Jay, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 6 March 1963, in United States, at the age of 72.