When Solomon L Gramling was born on 6 December 1861, in Richland Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Pvt George A Gramling, was 28 and his mother, Catherine SARAH Paul, was 31. He married Mary Ellen Lehman on 14 March 1889, in Ebensburg, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Dale, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Johnstown, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died on 29 July 1947, in Richland, Dean Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Richland, Dean Township, Cambria, Pennsylvania, United States.