When Raymond Everett Swasey was born on 14 November 1899, in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joseph Swasey, was 27 and his mother, Henrietta Heddy, was 22. He married Mary Alice Liddy on 14 October 1919, in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Agawam, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1940. He died on 30 December 1983, in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.