When Elsia Barbara Agan was born on 7 February 1882, in Lucas, Iowa, United States, her father, John Henry Agan, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Kathern Lefever, was 22. She married Chester Eugene Redfield on 20 June 1900, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Rose Hill, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Rose Hill Township, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 21 November 1976, in Garden City, Cass, Missouri, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Garden City, Cass, Missouri, United States.