When John Thomas Squires Jr was born on 5 August 1917, in Chapel Hill, Orange, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Thomas Squires, was 44 and his mother, Eva Lena Davis, was 30. He married Rachel C Godwin on 25 July 1941, in Cumberland, North Carolina, United States. He lived in Fayetteville, Cumberland, North Carolina, United States in 2007. He died on 29 May 2007, at the age of 89.