When Hazel Charlton Haight was born on 11 February 1890, in Castlewood, Hamlin, South Dakota, United States, her father, Stephen Daw Haight, was 34 and her mother, Ida Blanche Charlton, was 31. She married Leopold Macaulay on 14 April 1915, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 20 February 1963, at the age of 73, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.