When David Monroe Wade was born on 29 November 1885, in Georgia, United States, his father, James Allison Wade, was 31 and his mother, Lydia Ann Cornelia Sheffield, was 19. He married Zuma Elmira Stephens on 7 May 1917, in Crisp, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Doles, Worth, Georgia, United States in 1920 and District 945, Crisp, Georgia, United States in 1940. He died on 22 November 1963, in Crisp, Georgia, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Arabi, Crisp, Georgia, United States.