When Homer Lee Taylor was born on 24 July 1910, in Alabama, United States, his father, James Wyatt Taylor, was 32 and his mother, Della Ophelia Overton, was 31. He married Velma Mae Kennedy on 24 September 1927, in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Phil Campbell, Franklin, Alabama, United States in 1920 and Lawrence, Tennessee, United States in 1930. He died on 20 September 1984, in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States.