When Edna Mabel Adkisson was born on 20 April 1905, in Frontier, Nebraska, United States, her father, John Andrew Adkisson, was 21 and her mother, Mabel A Adkisson, was 20. She had at least 1 daughter with John Orin Hathaway. She lived in Russell Township, Frontier, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Horrell Election Precinct, Frontier, Nebraska, United States in 1940. She died on 5 February 1981, in Frontier, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 75.