When Susie Elizabeth Vanhook was born on 12 December 1891, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, her father, William M. Vanhook, was 36 and her mother, Cynthia Ann Nelson, was 37. She married Harry Archie Shroufe on 12 October 1920. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1935 and North Lebanon Election Precinct, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1940. She died on 13 May 1987, in Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.