When Elisabeth Thusnelda von der Osten was born on 2 September 1848, in Groß Jannewitz, Lauenburg, Pomerania, Prussia, Germany, her father, Julius Caesar Adrian von der Osten, was 40 and her mother, Thusnelda Therese Louise Wilhelmine von Kleist, was 38. She married Carl Ludwig Heinrich Witelo von Griesheim on 8 May 1890, in Groß Jannewitz, Lauenburg, Pomerania, Prussia, Germany. She lived in Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany in 1890. She died before 1958, at the age of 108.