When Nannie Emily Pock was born on 16 March 1881, in Falmouth, Pendleton, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Labon Pock, was 47 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Smith, was 41. She married Jerry Raymond Martin in 1902, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died in December 1970, at the age of 89.