Dawid was born in 1820. Dawid's father was Itzhak (Isaac) SZEPS and his mother was Tila. His paternal grandfather was Mayer SZEPS and his paternal grandmother is Unnamed. He had five brothers and two sisters, and also a sibling of unknown gender, named Abram, Szmul, Jacob, Yossl, Yankel, Zisl, Czarna and SZEPS. He died at the age of 74 in 1894.