When Lelia Virginia Lewellen was born on 28 April 1920, in Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi, United States, her father, Newton Oliver Lewellen, was 40 and her mother, Annie Myrtle Harris, was 33. She had at least 2 sons with Dixie Patrick Carr. She lived in Union, Mississippi, United States in 1935 and Beat 3, Union, Mississippi, United States in 1940. She died on 23 October 1992, in Mississippi, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, New Albany, Union, Mississippi, United States.