When Clifford Ballard Banks was born on 21 January 1888, in Bluffton, Llano, Texas, United States, his father, John Franklin Banks, was 31 and his mother, Mary Jane Roper, was 23. He married Zula Phillips on 25 October 1908, in Burnet, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 3, Hamilton, Texas, United States in 1930 and Kingsland, Llano, Texas, United States in 1935. He died on 11 May 1964, in Austin, Travis, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Llano, Texas, United States.