When Floyd Fegley was born on 12 December 1880, in Martinsburg, Dixon, Nebraska, United States, his father, Richard Lennox Fegley, was 28 and his mother, Emma A. Bale, was 23. He married Grace Emma Walker on 29 December 1909. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Twin Lakes Township, Calhoun, Iowa, United States in 1930 and Laurel, Cedar, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 25 April 1956, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Laurel, Cedar, Nebraska, United States.