When Amanda Jane Koonce was born on 14 April 1844, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, her father, William R. Koonce, was 31 and her mother, Salena Faires Lena Roach, was 23. She married Charles Smoot Weems Paulk in 1865, in Cloverdale, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 11 Cloverdale, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States in 1900. She died on 2 December 1912, in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Central Heights, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States.