When Nina Burke Wooten was born on 6 December 1888, in De Bastrop Township, Ashley, Arkansas, United States, her father, John B. Wooten, was 37 and her mother, Bunie Jane Wade, was 27. She married Anderson Bingham Thomson in 1909, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Kuttawa, Lyon, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died in March 1974, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Mayfield, Graves, Kentucky, United States.