When Cynthia Virginia McMurtrey was born on 21 February 1884, in Green Hill, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, her father, John Spinks McMurtrey, was 39 and her mother, Mary Ann Myrick, was 35. She married Thomas Evit Wallace on 3 February 1909, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 5 May 1962, in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Shiloh Church Of Christ Cemetery, Green Hill, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States.