She was born in Mount Sidney, Virginia, the only daughter of Elizabeth Ida Judah Link (1822–1867) and Simon P. Stover (1822–1873).

[5] In the 1890s, Eisenhower left the River Brethren Christian group, and joined the International Bible Students, which would evolve into what is now known as Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Eisenhower home served as the local meeting hall for the Bible Students from 1896 to 1915 but her sons, although raised there, never joined the movement.

Eisenhower was a lifelong pacifist,[7] so Dwight's decision to attend West Point saddened her.

[9] Dwight Eisenhower, then fully engaged in the management of World War II, was unable to attend his father's funeral, or to see his mother at all until 1944.