When Elizabeth Roberts was born on 14 July 1898, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, her father, Andrew Jackson Roberts, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Russell, was 27. She married Thomas K Hudson on 6 September 1913, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States. She died on 26 February 1977, in Clayhole, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Mcintosh Cemetery, Noctor, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States.