When Monterville Stubblefield was born in 1849, in Jackson, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Lydal Stubblefield, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Minchey, was 23. He married Margaret in 1875. He lived in Civil District 2, Tipton, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 12, Tipton, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died in 1927, at the age of 78, and was buried in Covington, Tipton, Tennessee, United States.