Nora was the second of twelve children born to Jesse Tyree and Lilly Alice Bloomer.
She married John Clarence Stone on June 9, 1903 in Douglas County, Missouri. She and John had one child, Luther Truman Stone.
(Note: Census records put her birth year at 1879. On the 1880 census, she was 11 months old, and in 1900 her birth date was recorded as July 1879.)