When Samuel R Batson was born on 8 April 1925, in Galt, Grundy, Missouri, United States, his father, Jacob "Jake" Batson, was 29 and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Ralls, was 19. He married Iris Lorraine Dawkins on 9 January 1948, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Jackson Township, Livingston, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 19 August 1981, in Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Avalon, Livingston, Missouri, United States.