When Bertha Mae Taylor Wilkerson was born on 1 October 1903, in Winn, Louisiana, United States, her father, Rev William Raymond Taylor, was 27 and her mother, Mary Ann Lucas, was 26. She married Henry Elijah Wilkerson on 2 November 1917. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ward Seven, Winn, Louisiana, United States in 1910 and Joyce, Winn, Louisiana, United States in 1940. She died on 14 August 1964, in Pineville, Rapides, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Pineville, Rapides, Louisiana, United States.