When Robert Walter Bloodsworth was born on 27 April 1874, in Mount Vernon, Somerset, Maryland, United States, his father, Risdon Plummer Bloodsworth, was 45 and his mother, Ann Maria Marsh, was 39. He married Edna Pauline Bounds on 28 April 1918, in Quantico, Wicomico, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Tyaskin, Wicomico, Maryland, United States for about 10 years and East New Market, Dorchester, Maryland, United States in 1930. He died on 3 August 1933, in Colonial Beach, Westmoreland, Virginia, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in East New Market Cemetery, East New Market, Dorchester, Maryland, United States.