When William Curtis Ellis was born on 15 May 1919, in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States, his father, Russell Erwin Ellis, was 23 and his mother, Catherine Curtis, was 19. He lived in Center Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 5 March 1969, in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States.