When Phebe Wallingsford was born on 3 September 1788, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Benjamin Wallingford IV, was 29 and her mother, Ann O. Gilkey, was 32. She married Phillip Funks Tunks on 12 March 1809, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 9 daughters. She lived in Green Township, Shelby, Ohio, United States in 1850. She died on 5 November 1862, in Shelby, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Green Township, Shelby, Ohio, United States.