When Martha C. Burnside was born on 30 July 1845, in Parke, Indiana, United States, her father, Thomas Burnside, was 41 and her mother, Margaret Wills, was 34. She married Orlando Livingston McCutchan on 3 September 1862, in Parke, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Greene Township, Parke, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 16 May 1864, in Parke, Indiana, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Parke, Indiana, United States.