When Jessie Francis Sims was born on 15 April 1894, in Gooding, Gooding, Idaho, United States, her father, James Gilden Sims, was 21 and her mother, Ella May Otterson, was 20. She married Roy William Stine on 6 June 1936, in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States. She lived in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States for about 10 years and Salmon City Election Precinct, Lemhi, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 22 February 1966, at the age of 71, and was buried in Lemhi, Lemhi, Idaho, United States.