When Donald Stephen Tennant was born on 10 May 1912, his father, Otis Arthur Tennant, was 30 and his mother, Gilla Ann Ammons, was 28. He married Ganelle Minnie Walker on 17 August 1935, in Blacksville, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Clay Magisterial District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died in September 1984, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 72.