When Malissa Esther Lamb was born on 6 May 1857, in Richmond, Wayne, Indiana, United States, her father, Ithamar Lamb, was 33 and her mother, Margaret Fox, was 32. She lived in Clay Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1860. She died on 20 July 1926, in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Sedgwick, Harvey, Kansas, United States.