When Virgil Austin Taylor was born on 21 September 1893, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, his father, Frank Pierce Taylor, was 20 and his mother, Hattie Wygelia Underwood, was 15. He married Neva G Pruitt on 26 January 1916, in Denver, Colorado, United States. He lived in Election Precinct 112, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1930. He died on 14 November 1956, in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in La Junta, Otero, Colorado, United States.