When Isabell Margaret Kay was born on 3 July 1845, in Canada, her father, John Kay, was 39 and her mother, Mary Richardson, was 34. She married Jan Herman Elze in 1870, in Youngstown, Porter, Niagara, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Porter, Niagara, New York, United States in 1865 and New York, United States in 1870. She died on 3 July 1914, in Baxter Springs, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Baxter Springs, Cherokee, Kansas, United States.