When Jeanette Tuttle was born in 1857, in Auburn, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Sherman B. Tuttle, was 41 and her mother, Martha Jane Brown, was 33. She married Thomas Shanks in 1877. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Jefferson, Montana, United States in 1900. She died on 3 September 1925, in Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Forest Vale Cemetery, Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States.