Anna Maria Pike was born on July 2, 1844, in Pennsylvania to William Pike and Anna Hicks. Her father was an Irish immigrant and a coal merchant who owned $300 of personal property by 1860. She grew up and attended school in Blairsville, Pennsylvania, and she moved to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in the early 1860s. She married Alexander Malin around 1867, and they had at least seven children: James, born around 1867; William, born around 1868; Annie, born around 1870; Robert, born around 1871; John, born around 1872; Alma, born around 1875; and Fannie, born around 1877. They lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and her husband worked as a carpenter. They moved to Sewickley, Pennsylvania, in the 1870s and then to North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, in the late 1800s. She died of bronchopneumonia in Versailles, Pennsylvania, on December 5, 1915.

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