When David Burris Frey was born on 29 October 1882, in Gillespie, Macoupin, Illinois, United States, his father, Abraham Frey, was 49 and his mother, Arminda Grant, was 39. He married Bonniebel Blackburn on 12 October 1909, in Macoupin, Illinois, United States. He lived in Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died in 1969, in Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado, United States, at the age of 87.