When Grace Ellen Goodpasture was born on 28 November 1885, in Menard, Illinois, United States, her father, Thomas Jefferson Goodpasture, was 35 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Traylor, was 34. She married Carl James Comingoer in February 1910, in Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States. She lived in Petersburg, Menard, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 5 November 1949, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Los Angeles, California, United States.