When Harriett Emaline Dyer was born in July 1847, in Union, Georgia, United States, her father, James Marion Dyer, was 23 and her mother, Eliza Louisa Ingram, was 20. She married Ivan Carr Collins on 28 September 1867, in Union, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and Choestoe, Union, Georgia, United States for about 40 years. She died on 12 May 1940, in Union, Georgia, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Old Liberty Cemetery, Union, Georgia, United States.