When Mary Bledsoe was born on 16 October 1872, in Gordon Magisterial District, Orange, Virginia, United States, her father, Moses G Bledsoe, was 38 and her mother, Mary Catlett Sanders, was 40. She lived in Orange, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 February 1915, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Unionville, Orange, Virginia, United States.