When Mary Alma Lasure was born on 14 March 1869, in Washington, Ohio, United States, her father, Ephraim Ellis Lasure, was 28 and her mother, Ann Eliza Green, was 23. She married Edward Clayton Hess on 18 June 1890, in Black Hawk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Adams, Colorado, United States in 1935 and Bennett, Adams, Colorado, United States in 1940. She died on 1 February 1960, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Mount View Cemetery, Bennett, Adams, Colorado, United States.