When Charles M McDaniel was born on 2 December 1863, in Newton, Mississippi, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson McDaniel, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Ann McCarty, was 32. He married Lucy Virginia Street on 1 November 1889, in Covington, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Beat 5 Ocoha, Covington, Mississippi, United States in 1920 and Beat 1, Marion, Mississippi, United States in 1940. He died on 24 July 1941, in Columbia, Marion, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Taylorsville, Smith, Mississippi, United States.