When James Cook Strickland was born on 21 May 1889, in Georgia, United States, his father, Joseph Jarrell Strickland, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Ann "Nannie" Kiser, was 39. He had at least 1 son with Freda J Yowell. He lived in District 731, Campbell, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 6, Hunt, Texas, United States in 1910. He died on 21 December 1955, in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins, Texas, United States, at the age of 66.