When Anna Wyder was christened on 26 March 1764, in Gsteig bei Interlaken, Gsteigwiler, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Heinrich Wyder, was 44 and her mother, Magdalena Imboden, was 34. She married Heinrich Zwahlen on 24 November 1780. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 28 November 1834, in Gsteig, Bern, Switzerland, at the age of 70, and was buried in Interlaken, Bern, Switzerland.