When Ida Adella Norman was born on 19 March 1892, in Shiro, Grimes, Texas, United States, her father, Mahlon Roswell Norman, was 23 and her mother, Linnie Pauline Wingard, was 19. She married George Maxie Ferguson on 27 March 1910. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 8, Grimes, Texas, United States in 1900. She died on 12 December 1985, in Texas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Brookside Memorial Park, Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.