When Robert Neil Filkins was born on 4 December 1906, in Richland, Richland, Oswego, New York, United States, his father, Raymond Henry Filkins, was 23 and his mother, Florence E Coon, was 18. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Beulah Elaine Matteson. He lived in Geddes, Onondaga, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 19 May 1986, in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Pulaski, Richland, Oswego, New York, United States.