When Dewey Proxile Boone was born on 31 March 1899, in Gaston, Lexington, South Carolina, United States, his father, Jacob Morgan Calvin Boone, was 46 and his mother, Ruth Ann Loretta Taylor, was 37. He married Lillie A Pound on 29 October 1921, in Gaston, Lexington, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 24 October 1967, in West Columbia, Lexington, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Faith Lutheran Church, Lexington, South Carolina, United States.