When Edith Liter was born on 14 August 1878, in Indiana, United States, her father, William T. Liter, was 29 and her mother, Anna Taylor Cone, was 26. She married John Randolph Lyons in 1919, in Wood, West Virginia, United States. She died on 2 August 1957, in Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Parkersburg, Wood, West Virginia, United States.