When Antoinette Craig was born on 10 August 1839, in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Jonathan Craig, was 39 and her mother, Jane Arnold, was 34. She married John E. Bailey on 2 December 1861, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. She died on 27 December 1921, in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Waterside Cemetery, Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.