When Mary Ladd Majors was born on 8 September 1784, in Stokes, North Carolina, United States, her father, Robert Howell Majors, was 23 and her mother, Huldah Ladd, was 22. She married Joel H Goode about 1800, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She died before 1840, in Madison, Alabama, United States, at the age of 54.