When Anna Barbara Flückiger was born on 26 January 1852, in Dürrenroth, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Ulrich Flückiger, was 43 and her mother, Anna Kaeser, was 26. She married Johannes Gradel about 1883, in Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She died on 25 May 1919, in Rohrbachgraben, Bern, Switzerland, at the age of 67.