When Paul Ferguson was born about 1808, his father, Kinder Ferguson, was 37 and his mother, Mary Ann Robbins, was 33. He married Mahala Gilstrap on 26 May 1828, in Butler, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He died about 1842, in Butler, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 34.