When Melvin George Honeycutt was born on 17 June 1911, in Alabama, United States, his father, Zacharias "Zack" Honeycutt, was 30 and his mother, Callie Allen, was 27. He married Orphie Cordelia Hand on 14 February 1931, in Bibb, Alabama, United States. He lived in Straven, Shelby, Alabama, United States in 1930. He died on 29 January 1949, in Bessemer, Jefferson, Alabama, United States, at the age of 37.