When Delilah Ann Tevis was born in 1742, in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, her father, Robert Tevis Sr., was 33 and her mother, Margaret Treadway, was 29. She married Adam Porter in 1761, in Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. She died in 1830, in Bath, Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Millboro Springs, Bath, Virginia, United States.