When Talimea Lahi Avala was born about 1856, in Mu`a, Tongatapu, Tonga, his father, Avala, was 45 and his mother, Mounga O Pulotu, was 43. He married Mele Toaila Hala'api'api in 1879, in Tongatapu, Tonga. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died in 1941, at the age of 85.