Harriet Frances Thompkins was born on 18 November 1868, in Colusa, California, United States as the daughter of Charles Alamanzo S. Thompkins and Armedia Clark. She married Jonas Hartzell Tigner on 7 June 1900, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Perris, Riverside, California, United States in 1910. She died on 27 October 1948, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.