When Mahala Card was born on 19 May 1833, in Kempt Shore, Hants, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Capt. Silas Card, was 33 and her mother, Esther Henry, was 30. She married Richard Stickney on 17 May 1870, in Peel, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in East Camden, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada in 1861 and Peel, Wellington, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died on 24 May 1916, in Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Elora, Centre Wellington, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.