When Ida Charlotte Lindhartsen was born on 6 March 1857, in Utterslev, Maribo, Denmark, her father, Carl Lindhartsen, was 36 and her mother, Marie Kirstine Christensen, was 35. She married Izaak Pieter de Gelleke on 30 January 1884, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died on 1 December 1928, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 71.