When Herbert Raymond Youmans was born on 21 January 1889, in Parke, Indiana, United States, his father, Lewis Emmet Youmans, was 34 and his mother, Mary Belle Overpeck, was 25. He married Clara Dell Allen on 14 May 1912, in Vigo, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Vermillion MM, Vermillion, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Newport, Vermillion, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 3 April 1978, in Waveland, Montgomery, Indiana, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Memory Garden Cemetery, Rockville, Parke, Indiana, United States.