When Thomas Hooper Gunn was born on 20 August 1789, in Amelia, Virginia, United States, his father, Starling Gunn, was 25 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Hooper, was 21. He married Anne Montgomery on 22 January 1811, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Renick, Randolph, Missouri, United States in 1850. He died on 16 November 1868, in Clifton Hill, Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Randolph, Missouri, United States.