When Maude Jane Toney was born on 15 December 1877, in Jamestown, Boone, Indiana, United States, her father, Hiram Jackson Toney, was 35 and her mother, Luvica Adams, was 31. She married Patrick Henry Bligh on 18 August 1895, in Jersey, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 2 January 1970, in Altona, Knox, Illinois, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States.