When Florence Lola Thompson was born on 22 November 1898, in Lyman, Fremont, Idaho, United States, her father, Hyrum Lucullus Thompson Jr, was 30 and her mother, Elizabeth Ellen Bacon, was 31. She married Clifton Ray Nielsen on 19 December 1916. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Canada in 1900 and lived in Alberta, Canada for about 10 years and Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1930. She died in 1997, at the age of 99.