When Mary Jalania Colvin was born in January 1856, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Amos Thomas Colvin, was 24 and her mother, Susan Rebecca Sherred, was 22. She married Jarvis Edwin Moger in 1873, in Blairstown, Benton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Williamsport, Emmons, North Dakota, United States in 1910 and Harlan Township, Page, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died in 1938, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hazelton Cemetery, Hazelton, Emmons, North Dakota, United States.