When Hiram Burgess Lewis was born on 3 January 1861, in Sparta, White, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Granville Lewis, was 33 and his mother, Nancy Jane Hutchings, was 37. He married Martha Emily Dugger on 13 December 1883, in Webster, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Shoshone, Lincoln, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Muskogee, Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States in 1930. He died on 7 November 1931, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Colton, San Bernardino, California, United States.