When Luretha Monteagle Workman was born on 25 September 1868, in Wyoming, West Virginia, United States, her father, William George Washington Workman, was 37 and her mother, Nereva Eva Stanley, was 30. She married Jacob Columbus Blankenship on 7 April 1892, in Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Falling Spring, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Shrewsbury, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 2 November 1932, at the age of 64.