When Dorothy Cordelia Anderson was born on 3 January 1894, in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States, her father, Walter Anderson, was 53 and her mother, Frances Manus, was 25. She married Edward Anderson on 15 January 1912, in Rome, Floyd, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Hixon, Clark, Wisconsin, United States for about 20 years. She died on 8 November 1951, in Marshfield, Wood, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Withee, Clark, Wisconsin, United States.