When William Monroe " Bud" Mott was born in 1880, in White, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Travis Mott, was 34 and his mother, Dicey Ann Bussell, was 28. He married Saratores Howell on 8 October 1907, in White, Shelby, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 daughters. He lived in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Civil District 1, Putnam, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 10 May 1949, at the age of 69, and was buried in Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.