Ida Mae Barber was born in Iowa, the daughter of Charles and Florence Barber.
The family moved to Nebraska at some point where she met William "Willie" Gray and had her first born son, Silas David Gray, born August 10, 1891.
She then married, Charles Richer, about 1894, in Nebraska. She and her husband moved from Nebraska, to western Oklahoma, before July of 1898, as her second child, Roy Major Richer was born in Oklahoma at that time.
Ida Mae and Charles were the parents of three sons; Roy, Eugene V. and William "Willie" J. Richer, before Ida Mae died of cancer, in 1909.
Her oldest son, Silas, was about age seventeen when his mother died. After
their mother's death, the three younger Richer boys were reared by their
maternal grandparents, Charles and Florence Barber.