When Lila Parker was born on 30 December 1884, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Priest Parker, was 28 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Barnhill, was 29. She married Ezra Gecovia Maxwell on 18 May 1905, in Henderson, Tennessee, United States. She lived in Civil District 1, Henderson, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 December 1965, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Blair Cemetery, Clarksburg, Carroll, Tennessee, United States.