When Thomas Augustus Cathey was born in 1907, in Arkansas, United States, his father, William Thomas Cathey, was 38 and his mother, sarah m Rummens, was 42. He married Elsie Jane Jackson on 9 December 1939, in Conway, Arkansas, United States. He lived in Liberty Township, Van Buren, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1979, in Arkansas, United States, at the age of 72.