When Bessie Mae Bentle was born on 26 March 1884, in Ohio, United States, her father, George Washington Bentle, was 24 and her mother, Melissa Marie Hamman, was 21. She married Charles Earl Rumph on 25 December 1906, in Ashland, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Sullivan, Ashland, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 1 May 1974, in Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Ashland, Ashland, Ohio, United States.