When Rachel Taylor was born on 2 September 1901, in Belton, Bell, Texas, United States, her father, James Macherd Taylor, was 28 and her mother, Abbie Irene "Reen" Hale, was 24. She married David Hobson Rotton on 2 June 1923. She lived in Justice Precinct 5, Bell, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 12 November 1988, in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States.