When Foster Rod Dickerson was born on 14 August 1903, in Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States, his father, Dr. George Douglass Dickerson, was 49 and his mother, Sarah Leanna “Sallie” Richardson, was 39. He lived in Van Buren, Crawford, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 30 May 1955, in Athens, Henderson, Texas, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Crestlawn Memorial Park, Conway, Faulkner, Arkansas, United States.