When Daisy Leatrice Foust was born on 24 April 1901, in Anderson, Tennessee, United States, her father, George Washington Cox, was 12 and her mother, Mary Magdalene "Mamie" Delozier, was 22. She married Edward "Ed" Jones on 7 October 1921, in Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Briceville, Anderson, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Harlan, Harlan, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 7 October 1999, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 98, and was buried in Andersonville, Anderson, Tennessee, United States.