In 1929, Elton Fax married Grace Elizabeth Turner. They had three children together. The Fax family lived in Mexico for several years in the 1950s,Toki Johnson, "Mexican Holiday: Profile of an Artist, Elton Fax and Grace" Pittsburgh Courier (September 8, 1956): 15. via Newspapers.com and traveled widely.Ida Peters, "Black History Feature: Elton Clay Fax" Afro-American (February 16, 1980): 11. He married as his second wife Elizabeth V. Murrell, a social worker."Elizabeth Murrell-Fax, a Social Worker" New York Times (October 5, 1989). Elton Fax died in 1993, age 83, in Queens, New York.
