When Chivous Dewey Lovelace was born on 6 August 1909, in Kings Mountain, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Greenberry Lovelace, was 27 and his mother, Lula Lee Allen, was 19. He married Mattie Louise Ramsey about 1932, in York, South Carolina, United States. He lived in Township 4, Cleveland, North Carolina, United States in 1940. He died on 10 July 2002, in York, York, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Lakeview Memory Gardens, Filbert, York, South Carolina, United States.