When Malinda B. Edmonson was born on 26 January 1828, in Clark, Kentucky, United States, her father, Rev. James Edmonson, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Sally Rupard Haggard, was 37. She married Robert Martin Elkin about 1848, in Clark, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Elliston, Madison, Kentucky, United States in 1870. She died before 1900, in Madison, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 70.