When Flora Ann Goding was born on 11 December 1829, in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine, United States, her father, Jonas Coolidge Goding, was 39 and her mother, Patience Tollman, was 38. She married Moody Chamberlin Clapp on 29 November 1849, in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Brighton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1880. She died on 29 May 1891, at the age of 61, and was buried in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.