When Effie Neilson was born on 11 April 1884, in Arkansas, United States, her father, Thomas J Nelson, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Charlotte McGahhey, was 19. She married Mirvin Delbert Kring on 22 January 1902, in Arkansas, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Carlisle Township, Lonoke, Arkansas, United States in 1940 and Carlisle, Eaton, Michigan, United States in 1964. She died on 19 May 1970, at the age of 86, and was buried in Carlisle Cemetery, Carlisle, Lonoke, Arkansas, United States.