Nancy M. Miller was born on December 18, 1838, in New York to Jacob Miller and Lucy Spaulding. Her father was a farmer who owned $1,400 of real estate and $320 of personal property. The family moved to Clinton County, Michigan, sometime before 1850. She married Eleazer Lounsbury sometime in the 1860s, and they had at least two children: Ida, born around 1863; and Ada, born around 1867. They lived in Ovid, Michigan, and her husband worked as a farm laborer. In 1870, they owned $700 of real estate and $175 of personal property. She remained in Ovid for the rest of her life, and she died there of a “cerebral hemorrhage” on May 12, 1915.