When Charles Lucien Phillips was born on 22 November 1893, in Bear Creek, Marion, Alabama, United States, his father, Olmedo Hugene Phillips, was 29 and his mother, Annetta Gertrude Ingram, was 17. He married Lula Freeman Wood on 23 February 1918, in Double Springs, Winston, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 27 March 1985, in Phil Campbell, Franklin, Alabama, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Phil Campbell, Franklin, Alabama, United States.