When Herschel Corry Kelly was born on 25 January 1885, in Ebenezer, Marion, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Crittenden Kelly, was 36 and his mother, Laura Ann Turner, was 32. He lived in Civil District 7, Madison, Tennessee, United States in 1900 and Civil District 5, Marion, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died on 7 July 1918, in Marion, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 33, and was buried in Jasper, Marion, Tennessee, United States.