When George Guy Beavers was born in August 1885, in Oakland, Coles, Illinois, United States, his father, Marcellus S. Beavers, was 34 and his mother, Sallie A. Nickolson, was 27. He married Helen Mary Saulsbury on 3 June 1918, in Clark, Indiana, United States. He lived in Petty Township, Lawrence, Illinois, United States in 1900. He died on 3 February 1957, in Webster, Monroe, New York, United States, at the age of 71.