When Clark Ray was born on 1 August 1886, in Newport, Fannin, Georgia, United States, his father, Daniel Cicero Ray, was 27 and his mother, Mary A. Hopper, was 25. He married Ophelia Vesta Chastain on 5 December 1915, in Juno, Dawson, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in District 1511, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Fulton, Kalamazoo, Michigan Territory, United States in 1966. He died on 6 February 1966, in Fulton, Georgia, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Westview Cemetery, Fulton, Georgia, United States.