When Marie Josephine Florentine Laurent was born on 14 February 1893, in Pirajoux, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France, her father, Joseph Victor Laurent, was 44 and her mother, Marie Victorine Clemence Vulin, was 33. She married Ernest Emile Ancian on 14 May 1908, in Beaupont, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died on 26 November 1974, in Izernore, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France, at the age of 81.