When Pearlie Mae Gulledge was born on 2 September 1904, her father, James Roger Gulledge, Jr., was 43 and her mother, Sallie Elizabeth Taylor, was 38. She married Moses Newberry Greenway on 2 October 1921, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Civil District 12, Decatur, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. She died on 3 December 1979, at the age of 75, and was buried in Cub Creek, Jackson, Tennessee, United States.