When James Luke Goad was born on 14 April 1886, in Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky, United States, his father, Newton M. Goad, was 36 and his mother, Julia Ann Bewley, was 35. He married Beulah Rather on 15 February 1913, in Sumner, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1900 and New Roe, Allen, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 24 July 1969, in Allen, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 83.