When Elijah Wickline was born on 24 April 1799, in Sweet Springs, Monroe, Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob George Wickline, was 48 and his mother, Catherine Spahr, was 43. He married Elizabeth G. Lewis on 11 January 1821, in Monroe, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Monroe, Virginia, United States in 1850. He died on 27 June 1879, in Sweet Springs, Monroe, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 80.