When Ella Catherine Sue Cronin was born on 31 January 1901, in Chicago, Putnam, Illinois, United States, her father, Peter Cronin, was 37 and her mother, Catherine Ellen Conway, was 31. She married Orra Mack Jenks on 29 June 1929. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 9 April 1979, in Dana, Helt Township, Vermillion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 78.