Her parents names are unknown, but she would have been born around the 1850s. She was the wife of Haji Zakar Der Avedisian and the mother of five children. It is unknown when her husband died, but her three sons were killed in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Her daughters survived, with youngest daughter Almaskar remaining in Arapkir until 1923. In a census of the remaining Armenians from 1919, there is listed a Takoumar Der Avedisian age 60 living with an "Elmaskar" Der Avedisian age 35 in the Shahroz to Shouga neighborhood. As Elmaskar is a very uncommon name, the only one in the list, it is almost certain that is her daughter, and thus Takoumar was likely her mother, though the reason for her first name being different than the one (Gadar) on the family tree is not clear. What's more, a search of the census for Almaskar's daughter Zovinar reveals only one by that name, at the correct approximate age of 10 but with the last name Tashjian in the same Shahroz to Shouga neighborhood. Also living there was an "Elmas" Tashjian age 35 and a Takoumar Tashjian age 60 (the only two Takoumars in the census). The extremely similar information seems to indicate these are the same people, the confusion likely stemming from Gadar/Takoumar's last name being Der Avedisian while Almaskar's married last name was different but presumably living in the same household. Why the last name was Tashjian rather than Davidian is not clear, but it could have been an alternative last name of the Davidians or perhaps they were living in a household with Tashjians. Whatever the case, this seems to suggest Gadar/Takoumar was alive in 1919, but nothing is known after that. Gadar/Takoumar's daughter Bulbul also lived in the same neighborhood with her two sons, and possibly in the same dwelling but the census is only divided by neighborhood. Presuming Gadar/Takoumar was alive in 1919 according to the census, it's possibly she died by 1923 when Almaskar and Zovinar left for Aleppo, Syria, or if alive she could have gone with them. However she almost certainly would have been deceased by 1928 when Almaskar and Zovinar turn up in Riga, Latvia and sailed for America, though again there is no evidence to know for sure.