When Adalaide Hurlbut was born on 3 May 1837, in Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, her father, Alanson Ames Hurlbut, was 37 and her mother, Charlotte Selina Welch, was 23. She married Samuel R. Hopkins on 7 May 1855. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Connecticut, United States in 1870 and Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States for about 20 years. She died on 22 October 1923, in West Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States.