When Robert Lee Anderson was born on 28 June 1889, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, his father, Joseph Henry Anderson, was 34 and his mother, Josephine Dolly Reeves, was 31. He had at least 5 sons and 4 daughters with Ethel Mae Dunahe. He lived in Hughes, Oklahoma, United States in 1935 and Stuart Township, Hughes, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. He died on 16 January 1969, in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, United States.