When Thelma Alice Merrill was born on 10 June 1899, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Ernest Lorenzo Merrill, was 30 and her mother, Emma Alice Brown, was 24. She married Ivan Reuben Baker on 13 August 1929, in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont, United States. She lived in Hartland, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1920 and Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1930. She died about 1970, in Vermont, United States, at the age of 71.