When Furney Sherwood Tisdale was born on 5 February 1869, in Brantley, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States, his father, Furney Green Tisdale, was 63 and his mother, Mary Letitia Johnson, was 29. He married Mary Susan Richburg on 23 October 1894, in Crenshaw, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Crenshaw, Alabama, United States in 1870 and Mount Ida, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States in 1880. He died on 7 May 1898, in Brantley, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Brantley, Crenshaw, Alabama, United States.