When Ezekiel Mason Roberts was born on 19 December 1839, in Flowery Branch, Hall, Georgia, United States, his father, James Roberts, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Mason, was 33. He married Mary Ann Elizabeth McAfee on 13 June 1865, in Forsyth, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in District 1116, Hart, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Georgia, United States in 1870. He died on 30 August 1907, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Cabbage Town, Fulton, Georgia, United States.