When Samuel W Tolle was born on 20 March 1890, in Petra, Bracken, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Tolle, was 36 and his mother, Martha ( Patsy) Workman, was 25. He married Rachel Lucy Courts on 5 March 1921, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 7, Lawrence, Kentucky, United States in 1930 and Powersville, Bracken, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 6 January 1984, in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 93.