When Levin Person Gause was born on 18 August 1879, in Jefferson, Texas, United States, his father, Robert Benjamin Gause, was 47 and his mother, Celestia Hillard Perry, was 37. He married Elizabeth Ingram on 20 April 1909, in Greenville, Hunt, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Marion, Texas, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 20 July 1951, in Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Chattanooga, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States.