When John Milton Ament was born on 30 November 1904, in Apollo, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Ira Clyde Ament, was 28 and his mother, Olevia Viola Jack, was 28. He married Leona Maxine Graden on 17 June 1925, in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, United States. He died on 19 July 1949, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 44.