When Roy Alfred Hoover was born in 1873, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Christopher John Hoover, was 32 and his mother, Hester Ann Tibbets, was 28. He married JoEllen Saul on 7 May 1899, in Dover, Clare, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Harrison, Clare, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Grant Township, Clare, Michigan, United States for about 30 years. He died in 1944, in Clare, Michigan, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Clare, Clare, Michigan, United States.