When Emaline Mary Smithwick was born about 1840, in Georgia, United States, her father, Tyre Harris Smithwick, was 22 and her mother, Martha Caroline Lathem, was 16. She married Henry Washington Crosby about 1859, in Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in District 1157, Berrien, Georgia, United States in 1870 and Nankin, Brooks, Georgia, United States in 1880. She died on 28 November 1923, in Brooks, Georgia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Brooks, Georgia, United States.