When Maria Barbara Faig was born on 24 August 1822, in Neuffen, Nürtingen, Württemberg, Germany, her father, Johann Fredrich Faig, was 37 and her mother, Anna Rosine Flamm, was 34. She married Christof Jacob Hupenbauer on 31 August 1847, in Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1882, in Untertürkheim, Stuttgart, Württemberg, Germany, at the age of 60.