When Dollie Frances Brewer was born on 15 March 1882, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, her father, George Washington Brewer, was 32 and her mother, Susannah Frances Denham, was 31. She had at least 7 sons and 5 daughters with William Doss Roden. She lived in Mineral, Sevier, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Oakes Township, Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died on 24 November 1971, in Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Soper, Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States.