When Elizabeth Mann Allen was born on 14 February 1862, in Lunah, Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, her father, PVT. Elias "Eli" Allen, was 21 and her mother, Martha Ann Walker, was 19. She married John Cabell Breckinridge McQuinn on 24 January 1878, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Charlotte Township, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Elkhart Township, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 19 February 1945, in Bates, Missouri, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Virginia, Bates, Missouri, United States.