When David O Hulmes was born on 6 June 1938, in Missouri, United States, his father, Orville Henry Hulmes, was 29 and his mother, Joy Gaydell Carpender, was 28. He lived in Marshall Township, Saline, Missouri, United States in 1940 and North West, Sierra Leone in 2002. He died on 19 April 2002, in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States.