When Solomon Forsee was born in 1790, in Tennessee, United States, his father, John W Forsee, was 24 and his mother, Mary, was 25. He married Mary Ann Polly Robinson on 7 May 1818. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 9 daughters. He died on 20 March 1850, in Randolph, Illinois, United States, at the age of 60.