When Adelaide Christian Corey was born on 17 December 1862, her father, Hiram Isaac Corey, was 29 and her mother, Charlotte Mace, was 24. She married William J. Oberdorffer Jr. on 27 August 1887, in Ingalls, Menominee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Hubbard, Dodge, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. She died on 28 September 1963, at the age of 100.