When Calvin Ledford was born on 5 July 1929, in Central, Pickens, South Carolina, United States, his father, Hardy Calvin Ledford, was 28 and his mother, Annie Mae Wright, was 28. He married Hallie Mae Anderson on 24 December 1949, in Arcadia, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. He died on 11 October 2009, at the age of 80, and was buried in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.