Anna P. Burdick was born on June 4, 1845, in Connecticut to Charles C. Burdick and Nancy Rix. Her father was a farmer who owned $3,500 of real estate and $2,000 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Brooklyn, Connecticut, and she taught school during the 1860s. She remained in her parents’ household in Brooklyn until at least 1900. She married Edwin B. Cummings on November 9, 1904. Her husband died in the early 1900s, and she passed away on May 4, 1934.