When Martha Whitaker was born in May 1799, in Woodford, Kentucky, United States, her father, Elder John Whitaker, was 38 and her mother, Martha Wilcockson, was 42. She married John Turner King in 1814, in Mulberry, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Lincoln, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Nacogdoches, Texas, United States in 1860. She died on 4 January 1862, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Sacul, Nacogdoches, Texas, United States.