When Flavilla Elizabeth Goding was born on 16 July 1834, in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, her father, Jonas Coolidge Goding, was 44 and her mother, Patience Tollman, was 43. She married Andrew J. Bailey on 12 January 1854, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Brighton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. She died on 30 September 1870, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Brighton, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.