When John Wesley Glovier was born on 10 April 1881, in St. Paul, Wise, Virginia, United States, his father, Griffith Gardner Glovier, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Agnes Aliff, was 31. He married Nannie Melissa Mays about 1910, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Lipps, Wise, Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Lipps District, Wise, Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 11 July 1963, in Bristol, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Temple Hill Cemetery, Temple Hill, Russell, Virginia, United States.