When Cecelia Caroline Shorey was born on 26 June 1861, in Ontario, Canada, her father, John Solomon Cartwright Shorey, was 23 and her mother, Samantha Elizabeth DeRoche, was 19. She married Timothy Dorland Schryver on 30 September 1885, in Newburgh, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Addington, Restigouche, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901 and Lennox, Upper Canada, British Colonial America in 1911. She died on 11 January 1949, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in Newburgh, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada.