When Miles Milton Roberts was born on 25 January 1914, in Greenway, Clay, Arkansas, United States, his father, Herman Clyde Roberts, was 30 and his mother, Gertrude Mae Christian, was 26. He married Arlie Gibson on 29 December 1956, in Corinth, Alcorn, Mississippi, United States. He died on 20 August 2003, in Jackson, Madison, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Henderson, Chester, Tennessee, United States.