When Desta Evaline Romine was born on 2 February 1864, in Harrisonville, Meigs, Ohio, United States, her father, Edwin Elias Romine, was 55 and her mother, Elizabeth Anna Walters, was 41. She married William Albert Jordan on 4 February 1885, in Pomeroy, Meigs, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Skagit, Washington, United States in 1935 and Prairie Election Precinct, Skagit, Washington, United States in 1940. She died on 21 January 1947, in Sedro-Woolley, Skagit, Washington, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Sedro-Woolley, Skagit, Washington, United States.