When Ted Cressy Liston was born on 13 July 1886, in Pleasant Plains, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, his father, Albert Lawrence Liston, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Susan Baines, was 26. He married Louise Marie Reid on 2 April 1914. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Garden City, Finney, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States in 1940. He died on 23 July 1964, at the age of 78, and was buried in Sunset Memorial Park, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States.