When Charles William Thomas was born on 11 April 1879, in Shelby, Missouri, United States, his father, Samuel Freeman Thomas, was 44 and his mother, Susan Ellen Pulse, was 30. He married Florence Viola Ammons on 1 January 1903. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Dawson, Montana, United States in 1910 and Alberta, Canada in 1916. He died on 6 February 1971, in San Luis Obispo, California, United States, at the age of 91.