When Thomas Tillman Storey was born on 27 July 1807, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Solomon Thomas Story, was 47 and his mother, Phoebe Ann Brooks, was 44. He married Eliza Desdemona Gibson in 1840, in Lancaster, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Crenshaw, Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 10 March 1895, at the age of 87, and was buried in Crenshaw, Marengo, Alabama, United States.