When Viola Ensminger was born on 22 July 1888, in Haines, Baker, Oregon, United States, her father, Jacob Henry Ensminger, was 41 and her mother, Johanna Ziegler Loennig, was 33. She married Fred C Wilson on 24 July 1914, in Jackson, Oregon, United States. She lived in Astoria, Clatsop, Oregon, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 9 Pine Forest, Deschutes, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 3 September 1979, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.