When Mabel Claire Adams was born on 17 February 1881, in Clarksville, Montgomery, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Robert Adams, was 26 and her mother, Alberta Charlotta Northington, was 21. She had at least 1 son with Mayborne Stanhope Watts. She lived in Dyersburg, Dyer, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Blytheville, Mississippi, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 December 1969, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States.