When Bennett James Applegate was born on 10 December 1899, in Decatur, Macon, Illinois, United States, his father, Bennett Clark Applegate, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth ( Lilly) Rude, was 28. He married Lucille Bradsby Goessling on 11 May 1926, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in University Township, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1930 and University City, St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1940. He died on 23 May 1965, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.