When Ruby May Atkins was born on 10 August 1897, in Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia, her father, William John Atkins, was 35 and her mother, Sarah Ann Little, was 36. She married Elliot Webster Hogarth on 19 November 1921, in Meander Valley, Tasmania, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 17 July 1982, in Burnie, Tasmania, Australia, at the age of 84, and was buried in Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia.