When Nelle or Nellie Allison was born on 31 March 1902, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States, her father, Jacob Augustus or Guss Allison, was 24 and her mother, Carrie or Cora Cates, was 26. She married Charles D Fisher on 9 June 1925, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States. She died on 2 January 1982, in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79.