When Zalia Elizabeth Taylor was born on 30 June 1910, in Groton, Brown, South Dakota, United States, her father, Mark A. Taylor, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Rachel Baldry, was 29. She lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years. She died on 20 November 1985, in Ramsey, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.