When Leslie Ethelbert Sutton was born on 10 June 1880, in Canaanville, Athens, Ohio, United States, his father, Asa J. Sutton, was 23 and his mother, Eleanor Smith, was 22. He married Jensigna Matilda Jensen on 22 December 1919, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He lived in Athens, Ohio, United States in 1880. He died on 30 October 1963, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.