When James Haslam Bankhead was born on 14 October 1881, in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Heber Kimball Bankhead, was 32 and his mother, Rachel Baugh Haslam, was 28. He married Rose Clara Danielson on 24 September 1913, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Mount Sterling, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900 and Wellsville Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States in 1940. He died on 21 February 1946, at the age of 64, and was buried in Wellsville, Cache, Utah, United States.