When Thomas Henry Burch was born about January 1882, in Amherst, Virginia, United States, his father, Edward Bernard Burch, was 30 and his mother, Judith Keaton, was 31. He married Willie Lewis Dillon on 30 December 1903, in Bedford, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 9 October 1966, in Elon, Amherst, Virginia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Elon, Amherst, Virginia, United States.