When Wallace Benjamin Lyons was born on 10 March 1898, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, his father, Richard Henry Lyons, was 40 and his mother, Nancy Angeline Parker, was 35. He married Alice Marie Higginbottom on 2 October 1920, in Osage, Mitchell, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Floyd, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Charles City, Floyd, Iowa, United States in 1920. He died on 11 August 1981, in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Oakhill Cemetery, Central City, Linn, Iowa, United States.