When Laura Etta Case was born on 28 December 1844, in Grant, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Aaron Case, was 35 and her mother, Lucy Ann Merritt, was 34. She married James Louis Finch on 25 December 1860, in Winona, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Minnesota, United States in 1870. She died on 7 December 1907, in Pleasant Hill Township, Winona, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Bush Cemetery, Ridgeway, Winona, Minnesota, United States.