When Crawford Ben Bolt Arvin was born on 21 November 1913, in Brownwood, Brown, Texas, United States, his father, George William Bolt, was 31 and his mother, Sallie Nettie Parson, was 29. He married Mary Kathryn Ashcraft on 2 February 1934, in Brownwood, Brown, Texas, United States. He lived in Justice Precinct 1, Brown, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 1 December 1992, in Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Brownwood, Brown, Texas, United States.