When Gertrude Emma Ashcroft was born on 15 November 1895, in Hyde Park, Cache, Utah Territory, United States, her father, Charles Robert Ashcroft, was 27 and her mother, Eliza Marietta Woolf, was 24. She married Richard Harper Toolson on 28 March 1916, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Smithfield Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 28 January 1979, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.