When Della Viola Jackson was born on 30 October 1883, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States, her father, Millard Fillmore Jackson, was 25 and her mother, Mary Frances Williams, was 24. She married Preston Rogers on 28 June 1901, in Collbran, DeKalb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Coleman, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 15 July 1982, at the age of 98.