Martha Ann Pratt (maiden name: Pollard) was born around 1823 in Clinton, New York, to Harvey and Betsey Pollard. She was baptized in Stone Presbyterian Church in Clinton on September 6, 1823. She married Parsons Pratt, and they had at least four children: Anna, born around 1848; Carrie, born on August 22, 1849; Ada, born around 1853; and Bertha, born around 1859. They lived in Winfield, New York, and her husband worked as a minister. They moved to Dorset, Vermont, in the 1850s, and by 1860, they owned $600 of personal property. A decade later, they owned $1,500 of personal property. She died of heart disease in Dorset on October 8, 1897.