When John Abraham Lehew Jr was born on 18 May 1897, in Proctor, Wetzel, West Virginia, United States, his father, John Abraham Lehew, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Jane Smith, was 21. He married Olga Louise Hale in 1918, in Ohio, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Marshall, West Virginia, United States in 1935 and Washington Magisterial District, Marshall, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 3 August 1972, in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Tecumseh, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, United States.