When Solomon P Tomlinson was born about 1803, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Tomlinson, was 18 and his mother, Rachel Neal, was 22. He married Mary Lee Baker on 16 June 1836, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Kentucky, United States in 1870. He died in 1870, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 67.