When Moses Rankins was born in 1774, in Frederick, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Rankins, was 22 and his mother, Mrs Moses Rankins, was 19. He married Mary Gill on 14 November 1795, in Mason, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Mason, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died after 1830, in Nicholas, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 57.