When Lydia C Larson was born on 14 July 1884, in Eau Galle, St. Croix, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Ludwig Larson, was 38 and her mother, Christiana (Anderson) Larson, was 41. She married Jacob Herman Buskirk on 15 October 1899, in St. Croix, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Finley, Steele, North Dakota, United States in 1920 and Spring Valley, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. She died on 6 April 1970, in Wabasha, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Gilman Lutheran Cemetery, Spring Valley, Pierce, Wisconsin, United States.