Born: October 17, 1929, Craighead County, Arkansas.
Died: August 2, 2014, Murray, Kentucky.
Buried: Itawamba Memorial Gardens, Fulton, Mississippi.
William was the son of Henry Dawson Jeffcoat and Eunice Frances Swafford.
He was educated at Itawamba Community College; Memphis State University; Freed-Hardeman College, Henderson, Tennessee; and the Harding Graduate School of Religion (now the Harding School of Theology), Memphis, Tennessee.