When Stephen Virgil Peavyhouse was born on 15 January 1875, in Fentress, Tennessee, United States, his father, George Washington Pevyhouse Jr, was 30 and his mother, Melvina Jane Wright, was 40. He had at least 7 sons and 3 daughters with Martha Ellen Beaty. He lived in Civil District 8, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 3, Fentress, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. He died on 15 February 1957, in Jamestown, Fentress, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Storie Cemetery, Fentress, Tennessee, United States.