When Alma Ailus Gardner was born on 8 December 1894, in Belle Point, Navarro, Texas, United States, his father, Robert Warren Gardner, was 42 and his mother, Julia Smith Yarbrough, was 34. He married Emma Catherine Atkinson on 18 September 1910. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Commissioner's Precinct 3, Throckmorton, Texas, United States in 1940 and Woodson, Throckmorton, Texas, United States in 1954. He died on 13 November 1960, in Odessa, Ector, Texas, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Woodson, Throckmorton, Texas, United States.