When Myra Bell Hinkley was born on 29 December 1872, in Ripon, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Orin Dill Hinkley, was 35 and her mother, Martha Brooks Hodgkin, was 26. She married Clarence Birdsall Kennedy on 7 November 1894, in McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Civil District 1, Warren, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1930. She died on 11 January 1951, in McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Mount View Cemetery, McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States.