When Minerva Jane Hull was born on 13 January 1832, in Clark, Ohio, United States, her father, Isaac Hull, was 24 and her mother, Mariah Grubb, was 25. She married William Martin Easton on 9 November 1850. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Jackson Township, Calhoun, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Clallam, Washington, United States in 1910. She died on 15 June 1912, in Washington, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Sequim, Clallam, Washington, United States.