When Virgie E. Yates was born in 1910, her father, William Yates, was 26 and her mother, Myrtle Fulton, was 21. She married Callie (Red) Allen in 1933. She lived in Magisterial District 1 Point, Henderson, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 18 June 1990, in Evansville, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Locust Hill Cemetery, Center Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States.