When Cora Alice Ditto was born on 21 October 1885, in Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Francis Lewis "Frank" Ditto, was 27 and her mother, Emma Etta Deveney, was 20. She married Cleo Henry Pitchforth in 1913, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Keithsburg, Mercer, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Seventy-Six Township, Muscatine, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 10 July 1969, in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States.