When Erik Persson was born on 9 May 1879, in Kilen, Leksand, Dalarna, Sweden, his father, Per Ersson Sundström, was 23 and his mother, Carin Andersdotter, was 26. He married Sigrid Vilhelmina Hallsten on 16 December 1911, in Sweden. He lived in Leksand, Kopparberg, Sweden for about 20 years and Nynäshamn, Stockholm, Sweden in 1911. He died on 3 June 1961, in Falun, Dalarna, Sweden, at the age of 82.