When Malinda Tubb was born on 17 November 1846, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States, her father, John Tubb Jr, was 39 and her mother, Susan "Sookie" Shumake, was 34. She married Thomas Wilson Nash on 22 February 1865, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States. She lived in Monroeton, Monroe, Mississippi Territory, United States in 1850. She died in 1868, in Monroe, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in Hatley, Monroe, Mississippi, United States.