When Sylvester Aaron Marble was born on 18 March 1825, in New York, United States, his father, Sylvester Marble, was 21 and his mother, Mary B. Waldron, was 22. He married Mary Jane Utter in 1848, in Davenport, Delaware, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sidney, Sidney, Delaware, New York, United States in 1860 and Colesville, Broome, New York, United States in 1865. He died on 29 December 1871, in Otsego, New York, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Broome, New York, United States.