When Rhoda Ann Langworthy was born in 1827, in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, Robert Henry Langworthy, was 42 and her mother, Lois Sisson, was 42. She married Joseph Henry Potter on 14 September 1847. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Rhode Island, United States in 1870 and Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States in 1880. She died on 21 February 1885, in New York, United States, at the age of 58.