When Lucy M. Manville was born on 11 September 1844, in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Linius Manville, was 45 and her mother, Diantha Sage, was 40. She married Robert A. Potter in 1866, in Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States for about 30 years. She died on 14 October 1938, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.