When Patience McFadden was born about 1815, in Laurel, Kentucky, United States, her father, Jesse McFadden, was 33 and her mother, Sallie Ruth Chestnut, was 23. She married Abraham Hunter on 5 February 1835, in Laurel, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1850, in her hometown, at the age of 35, and was buried in Laurel, Kentucky, United States.