When Esther Anna Thompson was born on 14 August 1885, in West Point Township, Butler, Iowa, United States, her father, Charles Thompson, was 49 and her mother, Maggie Maude Wray, was 29. She married Daniel J Guengerich on 2 September 1913, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa, United States in 1910 and English River Township, Washington, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died in 1948, in Iowa, United States, at the age of 63.