When Zunella Dee Elliot was born on 2 February 1873, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, her father, Heman Crocker Elliot, was 38 and her mother, Frances Phidelia Fillio, was 27. She married Elie B Lancel on 12 September 1896. She lived in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years and Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940.