When Nancy Elizabeth Talley was born on 22 July 1843, in Wayne, Tennessee, United States, her father, James H Grief Talley, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Martin, was 33. She married Thomas D Martin in 1871, in Baxter, Drew, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Whiteville Township, Baxter, Arkansas, United States in 1860 and Independence, Baxter, Arkansas, United States in 1880. She died on 1 January 1941, in Porum, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Coleman Cemetery, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States.