When Nicia Helen Brittain was born on 25 June 1896, in Pansy, Harlan, Kentucky, United States, her father, Carr Grant Cole Brittain, was 29 and her mother, Martha Fee, was 23. She married Daniel Crockett Hensley on 13 September 1917, in Catron Creek, Harlan, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Whitewater Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 11 December 1986, in Connersville, Connersville Township, Fayette, Indiana, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Connersville, Connersville Township, Fayette, Indiana, United States.