When Elizabeth Anderson was born in December 1875, in Texas, United States, her father, Gen Thomas McArthur Anderson, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Van Winkle, was 25. She married Charles Gauld in 1909, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1910 and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1930. She died on 28 March 1944, in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States, at the age of 68.