When Grady Lee Odom was born on 13 April 1893, in Reagor Springs, Ellis, Texas, United States, his father, Alfred Alexander Odom, was 36 and his mother, Alzada Elizabeth Cooper, was 25. He married Eva Lois Wood on 10 June 1923, in Ellis, Texas, United States. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Ellis, Texas, United States in 1900 and Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 22 May 1964, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Crown Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.