When Gerrilda Gertrude Gardner was born on 20 March 1891, in Kansas, United States, her father, Isaac Andrew Gardner, was 40 and her mother, Alice Lillian Shultz, was 21. She married McCracken in 1916. She lived in Sterling Township, Rice, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. She died on 29 March 1969, in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.