Elizabeth Plant was born in 1816 in Tennessee to William Plant and Nancy Collier.

She married Alexander Faulkner in about 1835 in Waverly, Tennessee.

They were the parents of Jefferson E Faulkner, Elizabeth Hester Faulkner, William J Faulkner, Narcissa Edell Faulkner, Alfred Faulkner, and Harrison Faulkner.

She died in July 1893 in Wingo, Kentucky.