When Caroline Rebecca Hyder was born on 11 January 1813, in Hampshire, Virginia, United States, her father, Michael Solomon Hider, was 33 and her mother, Dianna Parsons, was 25. She married Samuel Vandiver in 1829. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 21 February 1831, in West Virginia, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Old Fields, Hardy, West Virginia, United States.