When Earl Gilbert Ormsbee was born on 8 September 1905, in Smith Center, Smith, Kansas, United States, his father, George Daniel Ormsbee, was 22 and his mother, May B Luther, was 22. He married Violet Davis on 21 August 1928, in Arriba, Lincoln, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 5 Magee, Yuma, Colorado, United States in 1910. He died on 11 July 1963, in Burlington, Kit Carson, Colorado, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Burlington, Kit Carson, Colorado, United States.