When Delbert Warnick Talbott was born on 2 January 1866, in Pike, Ohio, United States, his father, Presley Thornton Talbott, was 25 and his mother, Louisa Catherine Bailey, was 18. He married Elizabeth O'Toole on 12 January 1893, in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Goldfield, Teller, Colorado, United States in 1900 and Castle Rock, Douglas, Colorado, United States for about 20 years. He died on 22 March 1947, at the age of 81, and was buried in Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States.