When Lester Sutton was born on 7 July 1911, in Georgia, United States, his father, Walter James Sutton, was 25 and his mother, Mary Leona Yarbrough, was 36. He married Mary Francis Paulk on 7 August 1936, in Berrien, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in District 1550, Tift, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Tift, Georgia, United States in 1977. He died on 14 May 1977, in Tifton, Tift, Georgia, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Harding Cemetery, Tift, Georgia, United States.