When Calvin C Silcox was born in 1837, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Wyatt Silcox, was 23 and his mother, Cerena Ann Likens, was 21. He married Sarah Cox about 1856, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died on 15 April 1911, in Phosphate, Sumner, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Gallatin, Sumner, Tennessee, United States.