When Edwin Ruthevan Bullard was born on 28 March 1843, in Missouri City, Fort Bend, Texas, United States, his father, John Montgomery Bullard, was 43 and his mother, Permelia Pamela BARGER Bullard, was 35. He married Mary Frances White in 1872. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Cedar Township, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Cedar Township, Boone, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 21 April 1906, in Boone, Missouri, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ashland, Boone, Missouri, United States.