When Martha Almeda Reber was born on 21 August 1886, in Woodville, Newaygo, Michigan, United States, her father, Lewis Benjamin Reber, was 39 and her mother, Sarah Angeline Focht, was 38. She married Chandos Frost Smutz on 19 February 1902, in Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Bear Creek Township, Montgomery, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Tavern Township, Pulaski, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 January 1957, in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Crocker Cemetery, Crocker, Pulaski, Missouri, United States.