When Martha Eleanor McGee was born on 14 September 1839, in Lincoln, Tennessee, United States, her father, William McGee, was 34 and her mother, Martha Patterson, was 37. She married Arthur H. Bell about 1855. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Lincoln, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Edinburg, Leake, Mississippi, United States in 1880. She died on 11 January 1905, in Leake, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Mcgee Cemetery, Marydell, Leake, Mississippi, United States.