When Charles David Cockrell was born on 2 September 1883, in Kansas, United States, his father, David Alexander Cockrell, was 23 and his mother, Mary Jane Starry, was 24. He married Barbara E Reed on 6 May 1912, in Noble, Oklahoma, United States. He lived in Noble Township, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years and Carson Township, Noble, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died on 19 September 1964, in Hunter, Garfield, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Garfield, Oklahoma, United States.