When Sidney Vanhook was born on 16 April 1906, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, his father, George Riley Vanhook, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Frances Whitaker, was 31. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Grace Marie Woodall. He lived in Magisterial District 6, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Oxford, Butler, Ohio, United States in 1980. He died on 29 July 1980, in Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States.