When Margaret Ann Roark was born on 11 May 1842, in Birchwood, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, her father, John W. Roark, was 41 and her mother, Margaret “Peggy” Gross, was 36. She married Archibald Lafayette McCallie on 22 July 1864, in Hamilton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Civil District 3, Lake, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Civil District 4, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States in 1920. She died on 13 February 1927, in Birchwood, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in McCallie Cemetery, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States.