When Mary Polly Baxter was born on 2 October 1805, in Estill, Kentucky, United States, her father, Bethuel Baxter, was 50 and her mother, Elizabeth Owings, was 35. She married John Warford on 13 November 1823, in Estill, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Prairie Township, Howard, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died on 27 April 1883, in Howard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Howard, Missouri, United States.