When Floyd Lawrence Thorpe Sr was born on 26 March 1898, in Clyde, Galen, Wayne, New York, United States, his father, George Thorpe, was 36 and his mother, Mary Bremes, was 28. He married Ruth Esther Barrows on 6 April 1925, in Monroe, New York, United States. He lived in Galen, Wayne, New York, United States for about 10 years and Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States in 1930. He died on 1 December 1995, in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, at the age of 97, and was buried in Lock Berlin Cemetery, Lock Berlin, Galen, Wayne, New York, United States.