When Luther Ratcliffe Tarrants was born on 4 June 1893, in Oklahoma, United States, his father, Thomas Henry Tarrants, was 39 and his mother, Estella A Price, was 26. He married Selma Yvonne Van Arsdale on 29 July 1915, in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States. He lived in Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1919. He died in November 1975, in Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 82.