When Mary Ethel Hammock was born on 25 March 1906, in Pope, Arkansas, United States, her father, Luther Alexander Hammock, was 28 and her mother, Mary Emma Lane, was 26. She married Samuel Dewey Martin on 24 October 1925, in Pope, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Wilson, Pope, Arkansas, United States in 1930 and Atkins, Pope, Arkansas, United States in 1940. She died on 24 March 2002, in Pope, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in Atkins City Cemetery, Atkins, Pope, Arkansas, United States.