When Elenor Shintaffer was born in 1807, in Ohio, United States, her father, Phillip Shintaffer, was 37 and her mother, Ann Nancy Butler, was 33. She married Samuel Soesbe on 3 October 1823, in Green Township, Morgan, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Greene, Indiana, United States in 1823 and Pioneer Township, Cedar, Iowa, United States in 1850. She died in 1850, in Cedar, Iowa, United States, at the age of 43.