When Smith Jesse Bills was born on 25 January 1835, in Perinton, Monroe, New York, United States, his father, Stephen Bills, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Honeysett Smith, was 25. He married Maria Brydges about 1860, in Wayne, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in New York, United States in 1870. He died on 16 December 1902, in Macedon, Macedon, Wayne, New York, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Macedon, Macedon, Wayne, New York, United States.