When Nancy Clarinda Guilliams was born in 1844, in Indiana, United States, her father, Martin Guilliams, was 30 and her mother, Mary Polly Bowman, was 32. She married Abel Salmon Bacon on 28 September 1867, in Woodbury, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 14 January 1923, at the age of 79, and was buried in Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, United States.