When Frances Bookie McShan was born in July 1854, in Pickens, Alabama, United States, her father, Feaster McShan, was 43 and her mother, Scythia Lucy Ann Coleman, was 36. She married John A. Arendale on 9 December 1875, in Reform, Pickens, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Reform, Pickens, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 7 Beard, Pickens, Alabama, United States in 1920. She died on 9 August 1931, in Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, United States.