When Lucinda Caroline Wheeler was born on 4 March 1861, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States, her father, Jonas Wheeler, was 40 and her mother, Sarah Mahuldah Miller, was 33. She married John William Brake on 27 December 1877, in Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Coalburg, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 50, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1930. She died on 21 February 1936, in Brookside, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Bivens Chapel Cemetery, Brookside, Jefferson, Alabama, United States.