When Daniel Webster Berkeley Tevis was born on 21 October 1834, in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, United States, his father, Simeon Perry Tevis, was 28 and his mother, Emily Berkeley, was 21. He married Juliett Sarah Waddell on 24 November 1863, in Lafayette, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Cooper, Missouri, United States in 1850. He died on 1 February 1905, in Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Machpelah Cemetery, Lexington, Lafayette, Missouri, United States.