When Martha Melvina Fair was born on 16 January 1857, in Murphy, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, Price Fair, was 32 and her mother, Elvira Rogers, was 32. She married Gaither Burgess Lovingood on 24 January 0074, in Cherokee, Washington, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 27 January 1939, in Andrews, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Murphy Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.