When Zachariah Taylor Fleenor was born on 4 December 1848, in Kyles Ford, Hancock, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Fleenor, was 36 and his mother, Katherine Rebecca Hall, was 38. He married Mary Matilda Wooten in 1883, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons. He lived in Jonesville, Lee, Virginia, United States in 1880 and White Shoals District, Lee, Virginia, United States in 1930. He died on 13 November 1932, in Hancock, Henry, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 83.