When Genevieve Grace McDaniel was born in October 1887, in Adair, Missouri, United States, her father, George James Lewillis McDaniel, was 33 and her mother, Hattie Eliza Wright, was 24. She married Walter Leslie Ives in September 1909, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died in 1962, at the age of 75.