When Wilbur Leroy "Smitty" Smith was born on 23 March 1913, in Uhrichsville, Mill Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States, his father, Harry Ray Smith, was 37 and his mother, Carrie Catherine Willard, was 33. He married Evalyn Gertrude Patterson on 14 November 1936, in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Mill Township, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 18 July 1994, in Kettering, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Glen Haven Memorial Cemetery, Donnelsville, Clark, Ohio, United States.