When Jessie Mae Lore was born on 14 May 1913, in Bonne Terre, St. Francois, Missouri, United States, her father, William Henry Lore, was 47 and her mother, Rosa Belle Thornton, was 35. She had at least 2 daughters with William Summers Ramsey. She lived in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 23 April 2008, in De Soto, Jefferson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Festus, Jefferson, Missouri, United States.