When Letcher LaFayette Kidd was born on 16 August 1898, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, his father, Charles Wiley Kidd, was 31 and his mother, Florence Vandergreff, was 21. He married Ann Laura Saylor on 29 October 1917, in Blount, Tennessee, United States. He lived in Civil District 9, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1930. In 1930, at the age of 32, his occupation is listed as salesman& repairer/adding machines & typewriters in DeKalb, Georgia, United States. He died on 14 February 1953, at the age of 54, and was buried in Knox, Tennessee, United States.