When Samuel Kinney Gulliford was born on 26 July 1843, in Chautauqua, Chautauqua, New York, United States, his father, Levi Gulliford, was 27 and his mother, Jane Amanda Fuller, was 30. He married Lavina Lucy Cave on 16 February 1867, in Bremer, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1895 and Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa, United States in 1900. He died on 31 March 1925, in Coquille, Coos, Oregon, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Fremont, Idaho, United States.