When Cornelia Vreeland was born in February 1854, in Michigan, United States, her father, I. Vreeland, was 24 and her mother, Myrtle Mauer, was 22. She married Hezekeih Dickinson in 1870, in Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Homer, Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1880. She died on 22 July 1921, in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Oak Hill, Gibson, Indiana, United States.