When Jones Thomas "Dock" Spurlock was born on 18 July 1855, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Johnson Spurlock, was 41 and his mother, Mary Ann "Polly" Birdwell, was 39. He married Ellen A Osborne on 31 July 1873, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Civil District 1, Jackson, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years and Civil District 1, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States in 1930. He died on 29 September 1939, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pharris Cemetery, McCoinsville, Jackson, Tennessee, United States.