When Antonio Assis Almeida was born in 1902, in São Paulo, Brazil, his father, Luiz Gonzaga De Almeida, was 24 and his mother, Camila Gonzaga Assis, was 26. He married Elisa Leme da Silva in 1927, in São Paulo, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1965, in Piraju, São Paulo, Brazil, at the age of 63.