When Barbara Ann Barks was born in 1862, in Missouri, United States, her father, Daniel Durning Barks, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Ann Statler, was 27. She married David Henry Fronabarger on 27 December 1885, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Baxter, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Buchanan, DeBaca, New Mexico, United States in 1920. She died on 5 September 1948, at the age of 86.