When Jetta Adams was born on 28 February 1883, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, her father, Covy Adams, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Cordelia Large, was 17. She married James Edgar Kiser on 30 December 1907, in Lawrence, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Pemberton, Raleigh, West Virginia, United States in 1910 and Magisterial District 8, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 8 March 1955, in Louisa, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Louisa, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States.