When Julia Nancy Ann Shipman was born on 2 November 1886, in Thompson Township, Pike, Arkansas, United States, her father, Mathew A Shipman, was 31 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Whitmire, was 19. She married Wilbur Laffett Bird on 25 October 1916, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in La Verne, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920 and Upland Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1940. She died on 2 January 1971, in Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Covina, Los Angeles, California, United States.