Maria Mann (maiden name: Garvey) was born around 1834 in New York. She married Amos P. Mann, and they had at least three children; Albert, born around 1858; Jabez, born around 1862; and Clara, born around 1865. They lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and her husband worked as a weaver. They moved to Bennington, Vermont, in the 1870s, and she died sometime after 1880.