When Edith Harriet Andrews was born on 8 February 1884, in Port Arthur, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, her father, Hiram Andrews Jr, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Mary Berridge, was 29. She married Walter George Gingell on 22 November 1906. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Ontario, Canada in 1884 and Orion Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States for about 40 years. She died on 12 April 1979, in Lake Orion, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Square Lake Cemetery, Lake Orion, Oakland, Michigan, United States.