When Christine Johanna Ellis was born on 16 January 1899, in Sparta, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Charles Gilbert Ellis, was 43 and her mother, Lena Louise Kuhn, was 26. She had at least 3 sons with Carl Montgomery. She lived in Easton Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States in 1900. She died on 18 October 1967, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in SeaTac, King, Washington, United States.