When James Benard Luckie was born on 13 October 1929, in Butler, Alabama, United States, his father, Perry Decatur Luckie, was 29 and his mother, Ruth Elizabeth Kent, was 24. He married Mary Ethel Herring on 4 November 1949, in Pine Apple, Wilcox, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Manningham, Butler, Alabama, United States in 1940. He died on 17 August 1975, in Greenville, Butler, Alabama, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Ridgeville, Butler, Alabama, United States.