When Gincey Brown was born on 12 June 1811, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Richard Brown, was 20 and her mother, Nancy Palmer, was 21. She married Absalom Wells Robbins about 1823, in Henry, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 10 May 1848, in Massac, Illinois, United States, at the age of 36, and was buried in Massac, Illinois, United States.