When Gonzalo Arias Jimenez was born in 1895, in Pácora, Caldas, Colombia, his father, Julio Arias Martínez, was 30 and his mother, Juana Maria Jiménez Vargas, was 33. He married Isabel Restrepo Angel on 11 February 1918, in San José, Ríosucio, Caldas, Colombia. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 13 December 1963, in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, at the age of 68, and was buried in San Nicolás, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia.