When David Wesley Lucas was born on 18 May 1834, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Rev. Wesley W. Lucas, was 25 and his mother, Jane Covey, was 28. He married Martha Lawson about 1855, in Madison, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Perry, Tennessee, United States in 1850. He died on 11 November 1892, in Wesley, Madison, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Wesley Cemetery, Wesley, Madison, Arkansas, United States.