When Rosetta Marie Slyter was born on 7 January 1898, in Atchison, Kansas, United States, her father, Charles Leanord Slyter, was 31 and her mother, Louella Hays, was 31. She married Elmer Burton Barns from January 1917 to December 1917, in Sterling, Rice, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Montgomeryshire, Wales, United Kingdom in 1935 and Caney, Montgomery, Kansas, United States in 1940. She died on 23 December 1969, in Dinuba, Tulare, California, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Dinuba, Tulare, California, United States.