When David S Talbott was born in November 1869, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Jesse Lee Talbott, was 33 and his mother, Ophelia A Clarkson, was 31. He married Gladys Anna Long Talbot on 7 November 1906, in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Elizabethtown, Hardin, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Centralia Election Precinct, Lewis, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 22 October 1953, in Centralia, Lewis, Washington, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Centralia, Lewis, Washington, United States.