When Virgil Oscar Taylor was born on 27 April 1887, in Dodd City, Marion, Arkansas, United States, his father, Rev James Leonard Taylor, was 26 and his mother, Martha Belle Thomason, was 18. He married Alice Harriet Richards on 5 September 1920, in Deaver, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States. He lived in Fairview, Major, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Powell, Park, Wyoming, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 22 December 1933, in Sheridan, Sheridan, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Big Horn, Sheridan, Wyoming, United States.