When William James Billie Adamson was born on 28 September 1890, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States, his father, Thomas Judson Adamson, was 26 and his mother, Nannie Friar, was 22. He married Mary Edgar about 1915, in Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ozark Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States for about 20 years and Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died on 8 January 1964, in Miller, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Ozark Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States.