When Jarilla Rozana Tatham was born on 10 July 1870, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, her father, Pinkney Benton Tatham, was 35 and her mother, Arabella Cirkendal Wright, was 30. She married John Robert Collins Piercy about 22 November 1891, in Graham, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Lexington, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1910 and El Monte, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. She died on 11 December 1954, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 84.