When Lionnel Paul Thibodeaux was born on 18 February 1902, in Breaux Bridge, St. Martin, Louisiana, United States, his father, Luc Adam Thibodeaux, was 35 and his mother, Azema Webre, was 32. He lived in Abbeville, Vermilion, Louisiana, United States in 1910. He died on 19 January 1968, in Pineville, Rapides, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.