When Mary Gertrude Bayless was born on 22 February 1886, in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States, her father, John Lloyd Bayless, was 29 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, was 29. She married John Wilson Byers on 6 April 1906, in Woodward, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Flynn Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. She died on 25 February 1972, at the age of 86, and was buried in Woodward Township, Woodward, Oklahoma, United States.