When George Leonard Woodworth was born on 1 December 1841, in Saratoga, New York, United States, his father, Leonard Hartwell Woodworth Sr., was 35 and his mother, Permelia Parks, was 34. He lived in Whiteside, Illinois, United States in 1850 and Coloma Township, Whiteside, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 31 December 1862, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States.