When Julia Ann Dry was born on 27 December 1858, in Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States, her father, Edmund Dry, was 35 and her mother, Nancy Eleanor Harris, was 30. She married James Austin Hogard on 5 September 1878, in Perry, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Campbell Township, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Marion Township, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States in 1920. She died on 15 July 1945, in Hoxie, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Clover Bend Cemetery, Clover Bend, Lawrence, Arkansas, United States.