When Mary Wa La Toney was born about 1785, in East, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, her father, Edward Toney, was 37 and her mother, Judith Barnes, was 34. She married Rattlinggourd Conrad in 1800, in Cherokee Nation East, Indian Territory, United States. They were the parents of at least 12 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1851, in Indian City, Caddo, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 66.