When Hugh Quigley Staver was born on 3 May 1837, in Pine Creek Township, Clinton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Frederick Staver, was 52 and his mother, Elizabeth Sheadle, was 37. He married Phoebe Ellen Tisdel on 6 February 1868, in Salem, Richardson, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Nebraska, United States in 1870. He died on 6 September 1897, in Salem, Richardson, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Maple Cemetery, Salem, Richardson, Nebraska, United States.