When Ralph Glossbrerer Culbertson was born on 26 August 1886, in Union Township, Randolph, Indiana, United States, his father, Cornelius Lorenski Culbertson, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Jane Smiley, was 27. He married Jane R. Effie Redding on 7 April 1909, in Wells, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Benton Township, Paulding, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Bluffton, Wells, Indiana, United States in 1930. He died on 30 June 1975, in King, Washington, United States, at the age of 88.