When Charles Elmer Wharton Jr was born on 12 March 1920, in Chester, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Elmer Charles Wharton, was 25 and his mother, Bessie Louise Evans, was 20. He lived in Crisfield, Somerset, Maryland, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 15 August 2004, in Salisbury, Wicomico, Maryland, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in American Legion Cemetery, Crisfield, Somerset, Maryland, United States.