Leslie Devlin Weeks was born on October 29, 1892, in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Weeks was a clerk for the Southern Public Utilities Company in Charlotte, North Carolina, when he registered for the draft (World War I) in June 1917. He served with the 81st Division from induction in September 1917 until his discharge by surgeon's certificate of disability in February 1918. Weeks died in Charlotte on August 4, 1976.