When Elsie Lampkin was born on 8 August 1931, her father, William M Lampkin, was 43 and her mother, Lena Holifield, was 30. She married Clarence C Spradley on 3 July 1948. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Beat 4, Jasper, Mississippi, United States in 1940. She died on 31 July 2002, in Laurel, Jones, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Springhill Cemetery, Laurel, Jones, Mississippi, United States.