When Annie Eliza Atchinson was born on 19 January 1846, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Daniel Ladd Atchinson, was 40 and her mother, Electa S. Fuller, was 36. She married Charles Benjamin Jencks Root on 14 January 1869, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1870. She died on 24 July 1879, in Ludlow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Ludlow, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.