When Dorothy Luella Tevis was born on 9 April 1898, in Connersville, Fayette, Indiana, United States, her father, Virgil W. Tevis, was 42 and her mother, Llewellyn Bottles, was 26. She married Harry Lee Sunderland on 23 August 1920, in Morgan, Indiana, United States. She lived in Center Township, Marion, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died on 22 July 1974, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 76.