When James Thomas Darrough was born on 27 February 1893, in Darroughs Hot Springs, Nye, Nevada, United States, his father, James Thomas Darrough, was 33 and his mother, Laura Morgan Stebbins, was 31. He married Amy Lucille Logan on 19 November 1913, in Tonopah, Nye, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Smoky, Nye, Nevada, United States in 1910 and East Fork Township, Douglas, Nevada, United States in 1940. He died on 13 May 1982, in Gardnerville, Douglas, Nevada, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Gardnerville, Douglas, Nevada, United States.