When Grace Brown Chapman was born on 23 December 1870, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, William Ladd Chapman, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Eleanor Frost, was 24. She married Oliver Cromwell Gould on 23 December 1898, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1930 and South Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1940. She died on 24 November 1963, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States.