When Bertha Matilda Lamb was born on 18 May 1883, in Wheatland, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, her father, Benjamin Soule Lamb, was 27 and her mother, Amelia M Lyon, was 21. She married Howard DeWitt Wells on 19 March 1914, in North Adams, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in North Adams, Adams Township, Hillsdale, Michigan Territory, United States in 1900. She died on 7 March 1973, in Adams Township, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in North Lawn Cemetery, Adams Township, Hillsdale, Michigan Territory, United States.