When Rufus Jackson Murdock was born on 15 January 1891, in Dale, Alabama, United States, his father, John Jackson Murdock, was 40 and his mother, Josephine Taylor, was 33. He married Ella Virginia Buxton in 1913, in Coffee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1935 and Hacoda, Geneva, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 29 May 1961, in Samson, Geneva, Alabama, United States, at the age of 70.