When Mae Bird Hensarling was born on 23 July 1925, in Brazos, Palo Pinto, Texas, United States, her father, Evander Abram Hensarling, was 32 and her mother, Mary Ruth Blanton, was 28. She married Albert Sydney Smith on 20 May 1944. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Brazos, Texas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 May 2014, in Port Arthur, Jefferson, Texas, United States, at the age of 88.