When Minnie May Cheatham was born on 2 April 1880, in Clinton, Henry, Missouri, United States, her father, Charles Edward Cheatham, was 24 and her mother, Mary Ellen Jones, was 21. She married Henry M. Johnson on 25 July 1905, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. She lived in Kent, King, Washington, United States for about 10 years and Montesano, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States in 1930. She died on 14 February 1937, in Aberdeen, Grays Harbor, Washington, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in King, Washington, United States.