When Virgil Payne Trott was born on 11 October 1910, in Sixmile, Bibb, Alabama, United States, his father, Wiley Trott, was 34 and his mother, Jennie Sarah Scott, was 29. He married Dora Bell Outlaw on 6 September 1938, in Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States. He died on 8 September 1994, in Green Pond, Bibb, Alabama, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Midfield, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.