When Jerusha Lucretia Asbury was born in 1778, in Tazewell, Tazewell, Virginia, United States, her father, George Robert Asbury, was 22 and her mother, Mary Ann Taylor, was 20. She married Thomas Marlow on 8 March 1797, in Washington, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She died after 1821, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Williamsburg, Whitley, Kentucky, United States.