When Mary Ellen Adolph was born on 15 October 1868, in Chesley, Elderslie, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Henry Adolph, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Ann Belch, was 25. She married David Henry Clement on 17 June 1899, in Chesley, Elderslie, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Grey Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 11 June 1950, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 81.