When Edward Leroy Drumheller was born on 19 March 1939, in Virginia, United States, his father, John Edward Drumheller, was 31 and his mother, Sadie Helen Harris, was 32. He married Elizabeth Ann Cogar on 13 October 1983, in Waynesboro, Virginia, United States. He lived in South River District, Augusta, Virginia, United States in 1940 and Waynesboro, Virginia, United States in 1975. He died on 16 February 1985, at the age of 45, and was buried in Waynesboro, Augusta, Virginia, United States.