When Nancy Caroline Tumbleson was born in December 1873, in Cotton Plant, Woodruff, Arkansas, United States, her father, John Alvis Tumblson, was 22 and her mother, Minerva C. Brown, was 25. She married John W. Williams on 1 July 1889, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Mounds, Creek, Oklahoma, United States in 1930 and Mounds Township, Creek, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. She died in 1951, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Hagarville, Johnson, Arkansas, United States.