When Martha Ann Whitaker was born on 22 October 1842, in Andrews, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, Stephen Decatur Whitaker, was 28 and her mother, Leusinda Elizabeth Taylor, was 22. She lived in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States in 1850 and North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 13 June 1906, in Andrews, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Valleytown Cemetery, Valleytown, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.