When Jennie Ethel Trowbridge was born in October 1890, in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States, her father, David Arley Trowbridge, was 29 and her mother, Phebe Alice Gordon, was 28. She married Alexander Williams on 14 November 1912, in Fergus, Fergus, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Buffalo, Fergus, Montana, United States in 1930 and School District 12 Stanford, Judith Basin, Montana, United States in 1940. She died in 1960, in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Lewistown, Fergus, Montana, United States.