When Mary O Boring was born on 1 July 1877, in Georgia, United States, her father, Alexander Newton Boring, was 37 and her mother, Cassie Ann Elizabeth Johnson, was 30. She had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Arthur Eugene Benson. She lived in Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 24 November 1934, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Mountain View, Clayton, Georgia, United States.