When Mary Amanda Simmons was born on 27 October 1846, in Amherst, Virginia, United States, her father, Elisha Simmons, was 28 and her mother, Matilda Payne, was 28. She married William H. Scott on 24 February 1870, in Hardinsburg, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Magisterial District 1, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Hardinsburg, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States in 1880. She died on 28 January 1915, in Harned, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Harned, Breckinridge, Kentucky, United States.