When Jeter Morgan Doss was born in 1915, in Virginia, United States, his father, George Henry Doss, was 37 and his mother, Carrie Virginia Jeter, was 26. He married Geneva Lorene Young on 24 June 1937, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. He lived in Union Hall Magisterial District, Franklin, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 23 April 2002, in Roanoke, Virginia, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Roanoke, Virginia, United States.