When Joseph George Haycock was born on 16 December 1850, in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William George Haycock, was 22 and his mother, Mary Polly Beck, was 23. He married Margaret Ann Susan Jones about 1873, in Rugeley, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Cannock, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom in 1881 and Helper, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 16 December 1916, in Ewell, Carbon, Utah Territory, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Spring Glen, Carbon, Utah, United States.