When Ellen Margaret Nunamaker was born on 26 October 1858, in Boonsboro, Washington, Maryland, United States, her father, Rezin Johnathan Nunamaker, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Hoffman, was 20. She married Louis Frederick Fox on 24 October 1878, in Keedysville, Washington, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She lived in District 12, Washington, Maryland, United States in 1900 and Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States for about 20 years. She died on 12 July 1936, in Boonsboro, Washington, Maryland, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, United States.