When Marianna "Maye" Smith Taber was born on 25 January 1862, in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, her father, Albert Rhett Taber, was 28 and her mother, Emma Middleton Haskell Thompson, was 24. She married Robert Goodwyn Murray on 10 January 1882, in Fort Motte, Calhoun, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Amelia Township, Calhoun, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and Barnwell, South Carolina, United States in 1920. She died on 13 February 1934, at the age of 72, and was buried in Fort Motte, Calhoun, South Carolina, United States.