When Marie Gentry was born on November 20, 1892, in Troy, Ohio, her father, Jefferson, was 48 and her mother, Parthena Lobb, was 44. She married Moses Jefferson Pearson on December 5, 1907, in Miami County, Ohio. They had 14 children in 21 years. She died on July 25, 1966, in Miami County, Ohio, at the age of 73, and was buried in Fletcher, Ohio.