Ellender Mozill Jones was born on July 4, 1907, in Georgia. She was the second child and daughter born to Jocie Maybelle Morgan and Dave H. Jones Sr, and she grew up in Cut Off (Walton County), GA.
Ellender married Charles Leary in ?. They had one son, Charles Leary Jr. (?). She worked as a slicing and cutting machine operator. Charles died ?.
Ellender died at Mercy Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, on January 2, 1992. She was 84 years old.