When Mary Ann Boggs was born in April 1860, in Blaine, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States, her father, Nelson Thomas Boggs, was 24 and her mother, Elizabeth Green, was 19. She married Richard Nelson Whitt from 1876 to 1877. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Evergreen, Langlade, Wisconsin, United States in 1910 and Wausau, Marathon, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1944, in Marathon, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 84.