When Martha Rouse was born on 10 October 1897, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States, her father, William Monroe Rouse, was 50 and her mother, Artilda Alice Fortner, was 40. She married Dotson Cornelius Creel on 1 August 1915, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 17, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Election Precinct 9, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1940. She died on 20 August 1988, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.