When Nolan Hershel Sherwood was born on 6 January 1905, in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States, his father, Rutherford Birchard Hayes Sherwood, was 27 and his mother, Minnie Belle Sherer, was 27. He married Irene Jessie Laster on 31 December 1929, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Bartlesville, Washington, Oklahoma, United States in 1935. He died on 27 July 1985, in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery, Joplin Township, Jasper, Missouri, United States.