When Oscar Thomas Linton was born on the 1st of January, 1881, in Beaufort, North Carolina, United States, his father, Reverend John William Linton (1828-1900), was 52 and his mother, Anne Eliza Higson (1855-1946), was 25. Oscar married Cora I. Jackson on the 2nd of July, 1910, in Beaufort, North Carolina. They were the parents of 3 sons and 2 daughters. Oscar Thomas Linton lived in Yeatesville, in Beaufort County, North Carolina in 1910 and in Belhaven, in Beaufort County, North Carolina for about 18 years. He died on the 9th of August, 1948, in Washington, of Beaufort County, North Carolina at the age of 67, and was buried in Belhaven Community Cemetery there in Belhaven. Oscar Thomas Linton had 7 siblings, 3 boys and 4 girls. Unfortunately, only 2 of the girls lived past early childhood.