When Lucy Turner Sadler was born on 19 December 1795, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Rose Sadler Sr., was 30 and her mother, Nancy Turner Moreland, was 20. She married Warren S. Wilbanks on 10 August 1815, in Lincoln, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 22 September 1848, in Noxubee, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Soule Chapel, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States.