When Johann Philip Walther was born on 2 March 1727, in Holbornerhof, Niederkirchen, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, his father, Johann Philipp Walther, was 43 and his mother, Maria Appolonia Zapp, was 33. He married Maria Elizabetha Amos on 25 January 1752, in Haardt, Neustadt an der Haardt, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 8 daughters. He died in November 1787, in Galicia, Austria, at the age of 60.