When John Furman Childress was born on 7 August 1894, in Buckingham, Virginia, United States, his father, John Martin Childress, was 34 and his mother, Fannie Ann Davis, was 33. He married Ethel May Williamson on 1 June 1919. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1894 and Marshall District, Buckingham, Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died in September 1979, in Lorton, Fairfax, Virginia, United States, at the age of 85.