When Mary Elizabeth Johnson was born in December 1882, in Missouri, United States, her father, William Carl Johnson, was 39 and her mother, Mary Catherine Frye, was 32. She married Horace Andrew Buzzard about 1900, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States in 1920 and South Gate, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 28 September 1953, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.