Lydia Minnick (maiden name: Henry) was born around 1798 in Pennsylvania. She married Andrew J. Minnick in York County, Pennsylvania, on December 10, 1818, and they had at least nine children: William, born around 1819; Catherine, born around 1825; Polly, born around 1828; Anna, born around 1831; Phebe, born around 1833; Melinda, born around 1837; Christina, born around 1839; Andrew Jackson, born on March 6, 1840; and Sophia, born around 1844.
They moved to Virginia by the early 1820s, and they settled in Fall Creek, Indiana, by the early 1830s. Her husband worked as a farmer, and by 1850, they owned $1,000 of real estate. A decade later, they owned $1,500 of real estate and $400 of personal property, and by 1870, they owned $325 of real estate and $300 of personal property. She died around 1881.