Annie M. Henry was born in January 1839 in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Flavella Henry. The family eventually moved to Vernon, Iowa. She corresponded with George Haw throughout the Civil War, and the couple got married in 1863. They had at least two children: Mary, born around 1864; and Hattie, born around 1866. They moved to Ottumwa, Iowa, in the 1860s, and Annie died there on September 30, 1869.