When Charles Jerry Baker was born on February 24, 1946, in Somerset, Kentucky, his father, Charles, was 26 and his mother, Pauline, was 22. He married on April 20, 1968, in Millhousen, Indiana. He then married on December 18, 1981, in Caroline, Virginia. He died on June 30, 2016, in Prince William, Virginia, at the age of 70, and was buried in Quantico, Virginia.