When Mary Linthicum was born about 1805, in Frederick, Maryland, United States, her father, Thomas Prather Linthicum, was 34 and her mother, Nancy Ann Williams, was 29. She married Stephen Cambron on 12 February 1828, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died in 1837, at the age of 32.