When Jonathan William Paulk was born in February 1870, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, his father, Charles Smoot Weems Paulk, was 32 and his mother, Amanda Jane Koonce, was 25. He married Margaret E "Madgie" Anderson on 11 February 1891, in Cloverdale, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 11 Cloverdale, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States in 1910. He died on 1 September 1915, in Lauderdale, Alabama, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States.