When Samuel Ernest Clements was born on 16 April 1871, in Bullard, Smith, Texas, United States, his father, Jacob Pryor Clements, was 39 and his mother, Mary Jane Pryor, was 40. He married Nettie V. Hilton on 27 September 1903. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Justice Precinct 3, Smith, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 3 August 1954, at the age of 83, and was buried in Bullard, Smith, Texas, United States.