When Joseph Willis Asbridge was born in 1871, in Dent, Missouri, United States, his father, John William Asbridge, was 25 and his mother, Rebecca Ardell McCuan, was 22. He married Emma Elizabeth Shults on 19 March 1893, in Dent, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 33, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 104, Pueblo, Colorado, United States in 1930. He died on 6 July 1941, in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Roselawn Cemetery, Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States.