When Anna Lavinia Harbaugh was born on 17 January 1810, in District 4 Creagerstown, Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, John Harbaugh Jr., was 32 and her mother, Elisabeth Koch, was 22. She married John Valentine on 28 January 1837, in Graceham, Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Creagerstown, Frederick, Maryland, United States in 1850. She died on 10 May 1863, in Graceham, Frederick, Maryland, United States, at the age of 53.