When Malinda Jane Lamb was born on 2 October 1864, in Canada, her father, George Lamb, was 41 and her mother, Mary Laver Humphry, was 32. She married David Allen Ryckman on 13 September 1881, in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Detroit Ward 7, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Piqua, Miami, Ohio, United States in 1910. In 1881, at the age of 17, her occupation is listed as sugar maker in Ontario, Canada. She died on 18 January 1945, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80.