When Elijah Parker Toney MD was born on 4 December 1819, in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, United States, his father, Joab Toney, was 25 and his mother, Mary Beatrice Ritter, was 19. He married Alice Jane Boone on 4 January 1848, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Sugar Creek Township, Clinton, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 31 March 1898, in Trenton, Clinton, Illinois, United States, at the age of 78.