When Willitt Hinton Dachenbach was born on 21 December 1883, in De Graff, Logan, Ohio, United States, his father, John Hinton Dachenbach, was 34 and his mother, Carrie A Kinnan, was 26. He married Cleo Ruth Smith on 30 September 1911, in Champaign, Ohio, United States. He lived in De Graff, Miami Township, Logan, Ohio, United States in 1940 and Logan, Ohio, United States in 1971. He died in 1971, at the age of 88, and was buried in De Graff, Logan, Ohio, United States.