When Ellioes Vanetta Sharp was born on 25 December 1917, in North Dakota, United States, her father, Marion Oscar Sharp, was 36 and her mother, Clara Edith Allen, was 35. She married Paul Rutledge SHELBY on 13 May 1938, in Shelby, Toole, Montana, United States. She lived in Sauk Prairie Township, Ward, North Dakota, United States in 1920. She died on 1 May 1999, in Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States, at the age of 81.