When Elisabeth Wallace was born on 5 July 1838, in Anderson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Thomas J. Wallace Sr., was 22 and her mother, Hannah Hibbs, was 19. She married William Dunham Keeney on 18 June 1858. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Post Oak, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1920. She died on 7 March 1922, in Johnson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States.