When Lula Lurene Gillespie was born on 17 November 1897, in Telluride, San Miguel, Colorado, United States, her father, Robert Hemphill Gillespie Jr, was 43 and her mother, Phoebe Delila Hickman, was 37. She married Jesse Henry Stolworthy on 7 April 1915, in Kline, La Plata, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in San Juan, New Mexico Territory, United States in 1930 and World in 1940. She died on 11 November 1965, in Durango, La Plata, Colorado, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Kline, La Plata, Colorado, United States.