When James Harold Castleberry was born on 2 October 1920, in Warren, Bradley, Arkansas, United States, his father, Coid Castleberry, was 20 and his mother, Verna Bee Kelley, was 17. He married Hazel Marie Henshaw on 23 April 1944, in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Pennington Township, Bradley, Arkansas, United States in 1940. He died on 16 March 2004, in Point, Rains, Texas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Point, Rains, Texas, United States.