When Lee Martin Tillotson was born on 24 May 1922, in Waits River, Topsham, Orange, Vermont, United States, his father, Martin Luther Tillotson, was 26 and his mother, Ella Mae Hood, was 27. He married Louise Emily Laundry on 23 July 1948, in Corinth, Orange, Vermont, United States. He lived in Topsham, Orange, Vermont, United States in 1940. He died on 15 June 1969, in Corinth, Orange, Vermont, United States, at the age of 47.