When Corda Mae McQuinn was born on 29 November 1901, in Morgan, Kentucky, United States, her father, John Cabell Breckinridge McQuinn, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth Mann Allen, was 39. She married Willard Dean Dehaven on 1 April 1919, in Bates, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Amsterdam, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Bates, Missouri, United States in 1935. She died on 29 June 1994, in Columbia, Boone, Missouri, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Virginia, Bates, Missouri, United States.