When Samual Rogers Gilvin was born on 8 January 1883, in Bath, Kentucky, United States, his father, William Daniel Gilvin, was 25 and his mother, Sarah E. Handley, was 29. He married Bessie Lee Gilvin on 6 September 1905. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Sharpsburg, Bath, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years. He died in August 1979, in Junction City, Boyle, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Sharpsburg, Bath, Kentucky, United States.