When Kitty McCary was born about 1810, in Edgefield, South Carolina, United States, her father, Richard Dudley McCary Jr., was 47 and her mother, Nancy Martin, was 42. She married John Davenport on 26 March 1832, in Bibb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Shelby, Alabama, United States in 1860 and Texas, United States in 1870. She died about 1871, in Rusk, Texas, United States, at the age of 61.