When Walter Thrasher Cutter was born on 16 November 1896, in Lonaconing, Allegany, Maryland, United States, his father, Henry C Cutter Jr., was 27 and his mother, Jane Laura Reynolds Mc Murdo, was 23. He married Hannah Mae Russell on 25 June 1916, in Lonaconing, Allegany, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 24 May 1962, in Oakland, Garrett, Maryland, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Garrett, Maryland, United States.