When Charner Price Tillman was born on 21 March 1894, in Hazlehurst, Copiah, Mississippi, United States, his father, Francis Haden Tillman, was 45 and his mother, Mary Isabella Price, was 31. He lived in Beat 1, Scott, Mississippi, United States in 1920 and Beat 1, Jackson, Mississippi, United States in 1940. He died on 21 September 1950, at the age of 56, and was buried in Forest, Scott, Mississippi, United States.