When Vernon A Gingrich was born on 16 July 1901, in Wheatland Township, Mecosta, Michigan, United States, his father, Reuben Gingrich, was 41 and his mother, Nora Catherine Barnard, was 26. He married Dorothy Helen Wood in 1925. He lived in Virgil, Cortland, New York, United States for about 20 years. He died on 23 October 1968, at the age of 67, and was buried in Cortland, Cortland, New York, United States.