When Charles Vandingham Overstake was born on 2 March 1864, in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, United States, his father, Samuel Overstake, was 29 and his mother, Nancy Jane Edgington, was 21. He married Rhoda Alice Clark in 1893. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Salt Creek Township, Davis, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Polk Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 25 August 1954, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, at the age of 90.