When Nannie Edward Ferguson was born on 7 March 1866, in Sweetwater, Monroe, Tennessee, United States, her father, John C Ferguson, was 43 and her mother, Elizabeth Catherine Cunningham, was 35. She married William M. Popplewell on 30 July 1889, in Stanberry, Gentry, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Orange, Orange, California, United States in 1920 and Vista Judicial Township, San Diego, California, United States in 1940. She died on 28 August 1951, in Oceanside, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Eternal Hills Memorial Park, Oceanside, San Diego, California, United States.