When Cora Mae Tevis was born on 11 July 1888, in Colorado, United States, her father, Joseph Clay Tevis, was 40 and her mother, Flora Elizabeth Stubbs, was 27. She married Clyde Earl Groves on 1 April 1910, in Mesa, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Alhambra, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and San Gabriel Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 19 December 1953, in Monterey Park, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in San Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, United States.