Frank Lee Houx was born near Lexington, Missouri to George Washington Houx, who later served in the Confederate States Army under Sterling Price, and Frances Pearl Price on December 12, 1854, although he has conflicting dates of birth that go up to 1860.

On April 10, 1898, Augusta died and Houx remarried in 1899 to Ida Mason Christy whom he had four children with.

During the next four years, the town built a residence for him and it now serves as a bed and breakfast known as the "Mayor's Inn".

[7][8] On April 3, 1941, he died at the Irma Hotel after suffering from an illness for two years at the age of 86 and was interred in Cody Cemetery.

The autobiography he wrote in 1939 was published in serial form by the Cody Enterprise newspaper in the months following his death.