When Elizabeth Margaret Anderson was born on 22 October 1885, in Howard, Queensland, Australia, her father, Gustaf Albert Andersson, was 35 and her mother, Mary Ann Ross, was 35. She married James Hamilton on 7 November 1915. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 12 July 1923, in Childers, Queensland, Australia, at the age of 37, and was buried in Queensland, Australia.