When Mary Francis Foreman was born on 23 May 1938, in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, United States, her father, William Prestley Foreman, was 36 and her mother, Lorean Elizabeth Wright, was 26. She lived in Artesia, Lowndes, Mississippi, United States in 1940. She died on 16 March 2002, in Columbus, Lowndes, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States.