When Clayton Edward Rogers was born on 9 September 1905, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, his father, Lute Derwood Rogers, was 31 and his mother, Lillian Myrtle Warner, was 29. He married Lila W. Okerlund on 11 June 1937, in Skagit, Washington, United States. He lived in Canada in 1935 and Seattle Election Precinct, King, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 23 January 1969, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ferndale, Whatcom, Washington, United States.