When Mamie Ruth Kimbrough was born on 8 August 1903, in Brownwood, Brown, Texas, United States, her father, James Blanton Kimbrough, was 38 and her mother, Susan Dera Howard, was 27. She married Cecil Roy Melton on 2 February 1935, in Ralls, Crosby, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Crosby, Texas, United States in 1935 and Commissioner's Precinct 2, Crosby, Texas, United States in 1940. She died on 13 February 1990, in Ralls, Crosby, Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Ralls, Crosby, Texas, United States.