When Ralph Emmett Hedgecock was born on 19 January 1906, in Kansas, United States, his father, William Joseph Hedgecock, was 29 and his mother, Grace Mae McCall, was 22. He married Mildred Louise Keller on 17 September 1931, in White Cloud, Doniphan, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Irving Township, Brown, Kansas, United States in 1915. He died on 12 June 1988, in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Dayton, Yamhill, Oregon, United States.