When Henry Coile was born in 1790, in Virginia, United States, his father, John Kile, was 25 and his mother, Susannah McKay, was 35. He married Mary Stanbery on 7 June 1828, in Greene, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 3 October 1877, in Saybrook, McLean, Illinois, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Cheneys Grove Township, McLean, Illinois, United States.