Adaline Roads was born around 1844 in New York to Joseph and Ada Roads. Her father was a farmer who owned $3,000 of real estate and $1,800 of personal property by 1860. The family lived in Clymer, New York, until the 1850s, when they moved to French Creek, New York. She married Robert Cuthbert in the late 1860s, and they settled in Argyle, New York, where her husband worked as a miller. They had no children. She died sometime after 1920.