When Mary Boord was born on 26 January 1854, in Dade, Missouri, United States, her father, Thomas Boord, was 40 and her mother, Elizabeth Frankenburger, was 40. She married John H. Schopf on 22 April 1875. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Lamar, Barton, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died in April 1928, at the age of 74.