When Lydia Ellen Deal was born on 7 July 1871, in St. Johns Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States, her father, Joseph Andrew Deal, was 35 and her mother, Mary Smith, was 34. She married Owen Grant Farnsworth on 9 December 1897, in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1905. She died on 25 August 1907, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.