When Katherine Sutton was born on 7 February 1882, in Knott, Kentucky, United States, her father, Jacob Shepherd, was 35 and her mother, Amanda Jane Sutton, was 18. She married William Zachariah Conley in 1902. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 5, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 1, Knott, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 12 November 1966, in Knott, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fisty, Knott, Kentucky, United States.