When Effie Florence Popejoy was born on 16 July 1887, in Hill, Texas, United States, her father, Tilman Armstrong Popejoy, was 31 and her mother, Nancy Jane Jennings, was 25. She married John H. Garrett on 23 December 1903, in Elmore City, Garvin, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Muscogee Creek Nation, Indian Territory, United States in 1900 and Haileyville, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States in 1920. She died on 30 January 1982, in Ventura, Ventura, California, United States, at the age of 94.