When Susie Maud Staggs was born on 27 November 1895, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Maxwell Staggs, was 33 and her mother, Martha Maude Nichols, was 28. She married Walter T Callahan on 20 October 1919, in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States. She lived in Orcas, San Juan, Washington, United States in 1910 and Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1920. She died on 30 August 1971, at the age of 75, and was buried in Sequim, Clallam, Washington, United States.