When Ida Bell Sturges was born on 29 May 1879, in Iowa, United States, her father, William James Sturges, was 31 and her mother, Armina Jane Howell, was 23. She married Jefferson Claiborne Neil on 14 September 1901, in Ashland, Jackson, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Hood River, Oregon, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 1, Shasta, California, United States in 1940. She died on 9 June 1956, in Merced, California, United States, at the age of 77.