When Margaret Garland was born on 16 March 1819, in Burke, North Carolina, United States, her father, Daniel Lafayette Garland, was 27 and her mother, Elizabeth Mary Grange, was 28. She married Simeon Free on 10 April 1845, in Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and District 284, Banks, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 28 October 1910, in Baldwin, Habersham, Georgia, United States, at the age of 91.