When Albert Palmer Smith was born on 10 August 1906, in Piedmont, Wayne, Missouri, United States, his father, Arthur Delmont Smith, was 24 and his mother, Mable Annis Honts, was 16. He married Olivia Pratt Driggs on 17 August 1930, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Benton Township, Wayne, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935. He died on 14 February 1960, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States.