When Cora Elizabeth Young was born on 2 April 1919, in Summit, Ohio, United States, her father, George William Young, was 40 and her mother, Emma Luella Harter, was 39. She married Melvin Richard Olds in 1937, in Brooke, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Barberton, Barberton, Summit, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 1 July 2002, in Summit, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83.