When Effie J. Andrews was born on 12 February 1865, in Illinois, United States, her father, John Ellis Andrews, was 29 and her mother, Martha A. Butcher, was 24. She married Thomas J. Whitehead on 3 January 1889, in Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States in 1900 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 January 1944, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78.