When Martha Ann Jane Herrin was born in 1858, in Blount, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jonathan Herrin, was 37 and her mother, Isabelle Elizabeth Gunter, was 39. She married William Turner Turpin on 24 December 1869, in Jackson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Webster, Jackson, North Carolina, United States in 1880. She died on 24 August 1935, in Yellow Creek, Graham, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Yellow Creek, Graham, North Carolina, United States.