When Olive Elizabeth Giffin was born in April 1848, in Ohio, United States, her father, Matthew Giffin, was 39 and her mother, Lucinda Stewart, was 32. She married Lewis Elza Tucker on 28 October 1874, in Benton, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Lindsey Township, Benton, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. In 1880, at the age of 62, her occupation is listed as keeping house in Lindsey Township, Benton, Missouri, United States. She died in November 1926, in Lincoln, Benton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Warsaw, Benton, Missouri, United States.