When Edith Elizabeth Ansell was born on 13 September 1878, in Essex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Edwin George Ansell, was 22 and her mother, Mary Ann Knopp, was 21. She married Albert Herman Chrysler on 15 September 1896, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1911 and Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916. She died on 31 December 1943, in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 65, and was buried in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.