When Minnie Della McCartney was born on 30 April 1884, in Griswold, Cass, Iowa, United States, her father, Frank Curtis McCartney, was 27 and her mother, Addie May Loomis, was 17. She married Franklin Seigel Johndrow on 24 April 1910. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Weaubleau Township, Hickory, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Weaubleau, Hickory, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. She died on 10 January 1951, in Adair, Iowa, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Adair, Iowa, United States.