When Lemuel Hardison Spilsbury was born on 14 March 1885, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, his father, Alma Platte Spilsbury, was 34 and his mother, Mary Jane Redd, was 26. He married Martha Alice Acord on 11 July 1907, in El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Colonia Juárez, Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1930 and Supervisorial District 1, Cochise, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 2 January 1973, in Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, United States.