When Rachel Deviney was born on 7 March 1782, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, her father, Captain Aaron Levi Deveny Jr., was 34 and her mother, Sarah Black, was 33. She married John York Waters on 16 February 1804, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Rutherford Twp, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States in 1850. She died after November 1852, in Rutherford, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 70.