When George Walter McDaniel was born on 29 December 1883, in Fannin, Texas, United States, his father, Louis Tillman McDaniel, was 39 and his mother, Cornelia F Stewart, was 30. He married Esta Trusselo Vestal in 1905, in Whitewright, Grayson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Justice Precinct 3, Fannin, Texas, United States in 1900 and Texhoma Township, Texas, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 16 March 1969, in Texhoma, Texas, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Texhoma, Sherman, Texas, United States.