When Mary Ellen Thompson was born on 12 October 1885, in Adair, Hancock, Kentucky, United States, her father, Jesse Thompson, was 27 and her mother, Nancy E Harvey, was 20. She married Zola L. Bennett on 3 November 1910. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Magisterial District 3, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Magisterial District 3 Glenville, Adair, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 15 December 1949, in Adair, Hancock, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Stone Cemetery, Gadberry, Adair, Kentucky, United States.