When Lenora Pearl Traxler was born in April 1886, in Mississippi, United States, her father, David Cornelius Traxler, was 22 and her mother, Ida Elizabeth Collier, was 24. She married John Daniel Ferguson on 11 December 1904, in Rankin, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Rankin, Mississippi, United States in 1920. She died in 1969, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Brandon, Rankin, Mississippi, United States.