When Addie May Syphers was born on 3 May 1867, in Houlton, Aroostook, Maine, United States, her father, Ansel Elijah Syphers, was 27 and her mother, Clarissa Elizabeth Pray, was 19. She married Albert Benjamin Magers on 25 February 1884. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Norton, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Dent Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1940. She died on 23 March 1944, in San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Devizes, Norton, Kansas, United States.