When Samuel Barnett Shott III was born on 11 July 1898, in Birmingham, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, his father, Samuel Barney Shott, was 37 and his mother, Mary Frances Cooper, was 26. He married Harriet E.Peckove Rencuntre on 29 May 1924, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Union Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States in 1920 and Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1930. He died on 9 September 1969, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States.