When David Godson Sanders was born on 1 January 1884, in Tonto Basin, Gila, Arizona Territory, United States, his father, David Walker Sanders, was 20 and his mother, Eunice Bleak, was 18. He married Ada Annetta Smithson on 5 October 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in St Johns Precinct, Apache, Arizona, United States in 1900 and Graham, Arizona, United States in 1910. He died on 7 July 1947, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Hubbard Cemetery, Thatcher, Graham, Arizona, United States.