When Jonathan William Paulk was born in February 1870, 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, at the age of 45, and was buried in Florence, Lauderdale, Alabama, United States.