When Lester Arnold Sutton was born on 21 February 1885, in Newton, Jasper, Illinois, United States, his father, Richard Edward Sutton, was 39 and his mother, Sara Ann Kibler, was 37. He lived in Crooked Creek Township, Jasper, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Baxter, Arkansas, United States in 1935. He died on 3 January 1957, in Wakita, Grant, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Wakita Cemetery, Wakita, Grant, Oklahoma, United States.