When John Clifford Adkisson Jr was born on 11 May 1923, in East Point, Fulton, Georgia, United States, his father, John Clifford Adkisson Sr., was 28 and his mother, Johnnie Inez Gaston, was 25. He married Joan Arden Wilson on 24 October 1959, in Arlington, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in College Park, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1930. In 1942, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as worked at atlanta leather company in Fulton, Georgia, United States. He died on 20 May 1989, at the age of 66, and was buried in Georgia Memorial Park, Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States.