When Ada Della Stout was born on 4 May 1893, in Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, United States, her father, James Madison Stout, was 46 and her mother, Amanda Della Walters, was 36. She married Chester Lee Rickstrew on 3 June 1911. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Huerfano, Colorado, United States in 1930 and Mesa, Colorado, United States in 1935. She died on 7 April 1988, in De Beque, Mesa, Colorado, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado, United States.