When Hallie Oleta Chute was born on 8 April 1899, in Mount Sterling, Brown, Illinois, United States, her father, James Hervey Chute, was 33 and her mother, Ida Naomi Snyder, was 33. She married Dwight Herbert Adams in 1919, in Brown, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Cooperstown, Brown, Illinois, United States for about 40 years. She died on 8 October 1955, in Payson, Adams, Illinois, United States, at the age of 56.