When Della Fay Thompson was born on 12 January 1895, in Oklahoma, United States, her father, Charles Newton Thompson, was 33 and her mother, Ida Leona Smith, was 32. She married James Otto Edwards in 1920, in Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Valencia, Valencia, New Mexico, United States in 1910 and Sapulpa, Creek, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. She died on 11 August 1971, in San Joaquin, California, United States, at the age of 76.