When Eliseo Velásquez Jiménez was born about 1895, in Sondorillo, Huancabamba, Piura, Peru, his father, Herminio Velasquez Guerrero, was 14 and his mother, Petronila Jimenez Alberca, was 23. He had at least 1 son with Bernarda Velasco Merino. He died in 1980, in Bellavista, Jaén, Cajamarca, Peru, at the age of 85.