When Daisy Dillard Adams was born on 5 July 1888, in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, United States, her father, Samuel William Adams, was 26 and her mother, Sabella Francis Hunter, was 27. She married James Osborne Pyrtle on 7 February 1909, in Westfield, Surry, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Quaker Gap, Stokes, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Rural Hall, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States in 1982. She died on 21 May 1982, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Stokes, North Carolina, United States.