Angus Deaton was on October 10, 1866, in North Carolina to Noah and Sarah Deaton. His father was a farmer and carriage wood worker who owned $50 of personal property by 1860. He grew up and attended school in Carthage, North Carolina, and he married Dollie Lavelle on December 26, 1892. They had at least four children: Carrie, born around 1893; Paul, born around 1895; Angus, born around 1897; and Arthur, born around 1900. They moved to Kentucky and then to Connersville, Indiana, in the 1890s. He died there on September 15, 1908.