When Louis Tillman Gibson Sr was born on 28 June 1903, in South Carolina, United States, his father, John Edward Gibson, was 27 and his mother, Mary Lula Henson, was 21. He married Alice M. Anders in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Coopersburg, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Lower Saucon Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died on 28 October 1985, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Hellertown, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.