When Lora Grace Todd was born on 19 August 1932, in Mississippi, United States, her father, Samuel Floyd Todd, was 50 and her mother, Nora Naomi Hill, was 27. She lived in Rural, Clarke, Mississippi Territory, United States in 1935 and Beat 5, Clarke, Mississippi, United States in 1940. She died on 25 June 1962, in Gulfport, Harrison, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Clarke, Mississippi, United States.