When Elisabeth Steudler was born on 17 April 1785, in Aeschi Ursenbach, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Samuel Steudler, was 32 and her mother, Anna Staehli, was 28. She married Johannes Roethenmund on 13 December 1811, in Aeschi Ursenbach, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She died on 27 January 1851, in her hometown, at the age of 65.