When Jessie Ellen Tarrants was born on 13 April 1880, in Marysville, Yuba, California, United States, her father, Charles Henry Tarrants, was 48 and her mother, Virgina G. Nelson, was 35. She married John Henry Crafts jr on 23 February 1899, in Red Bluff, Tehama, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Long Bar, Yuba, California, United States in 1900 and Judicial Township 1, Contra Costa, California, United States in 1940. She died on 11 April 1951, in Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 70.