When Philip Woodson King Sr was born on 14 September 1879, in Morrison, Warren, Tennessee, United States, his father, Drew Woodson King, was 40 and his mother, Tennessee Polk Bonner, was 34. He married Susie St John on 3 June 1903, in Warren, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in District 10, Effingham, Georgia, United States in 1930 and Civil District 10, Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1940. He died on 10 June 1965, in McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Morrison Cemetery, Morrison, Warren, Tennessee, United States.