When Minnie Lee Stallings was born on 16 July 1900, in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States, her father, John Henderson Stallings, was 33 and her mother, Minty Rachel or Minnie Stepp, was 33. She married Cleveland Carl Christenbury on 3 August 1919, in Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States for about 20 years and Kannapolis, Cabarrus, North Carolina, United States in 1994. She died on 22 July 1994, in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States.