When George Folsom Everest was born on 21 November 1894, in Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States, his father, George Franklin Fort Everest, was 25 and his mother, Florence Folsom, was 22. He married Elsie Pusey Tinley on 14 June 1921, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Kane Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States in 1940. He died on 27 June 1978, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.