When Elsbeth Zur Schmidi was born on 20 September 1755, in Matten Gstaad, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Peter Schmiedi, was 35 and her mother, Margarethe Balmer, was 21. She married Ulrich Balmer on 26 September 1770, in Wilderswil, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 15 August 1776, in Wilderswil, Bern, Switzerland, at the age of 20.