When Mary Malissie Toney was born on 13 October 1877, in Banks, Georgia, United States, her father, John Thomas Toney, was 30 and her mother, Permelia Frances Currey, was 41. She married Amos Dawson Rainwater on 10 March 1902, in Campbell, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in District 499, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Fulton, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States in 1962. She died on 23 June 1962, in Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, Fairburn, Fulton, Georgia, United States.