When Malinda Bayne was born on 14 September 1816, her father, Samuel Duvall Bayne, was 34 and her mother, Eleanor Ellen West, was 30. She married James Wright on 9 May 1833, in Decatur, Brown, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Indiana, United States in 1870 and Washington, Tazewell, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 24 July 1886, in Ottawa, Franklin, Kansas, United States, at the age of 69.