When Florence Kivet Thompson was born on 12 February 1891, in Perry Township, Shelby, Ohio, United States, her father, Emory Sylvester Thompson, was 22 and her mother, Lizzie C LeFevre Trapp, was 18. She married Floyd P. Dunnigan on 25 June 1913, in Flora, Clay, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Woodland, Barry, Michigan, United States in 1930 and Woodland Township, Barry, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 2 April 1964, at the age of 73.