When Ruth Ann Missouri Ducket was born on 24 October 1854, in Georgia, United States, her father, Elijah Duckett, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Ann Rochester, was 26. She married Franklin Fernanden Mc Cowen on 15 January 1874. They were the parents of at least 7 daughters. She lived in Mississippi, United States in 1870 and Union Township, Dunklin, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 1 May 1886, in Campbell Township, Douglas, Missouri, United States, at the age of 31.