When Cora Edith Tooley was born on 9 December 1886, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Tooley, was 34 and her mother, Eliza Ann Hitchcock, was 36. She married Edward Elza Bennett on 22 February 1913, in Scioto, Ohio, United States. She lived in Springville, Greenup, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Firebrick, Lewis, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 August 1929, in Portsmouth, Wayne Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Mount Zion Methodist Church Cemetery, South Shore, Greenup, Kentucky, United States.