When Clara M. Tooley was born on 29 September 1896, in Eva, Concordia, Louisiana, United States, her father, Dixie Tooley, was 31 and her mother, Annie Isabelle Warwick, was 24. She married Thomas Levi Jackson in 1914. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Police Jury Ward 10, Concordia, Louisiana, United States for about 30 years. She died on 12 October 1986, in Ferriday, Concordia, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Concordia, Louisiana, United States.