When Hyrum Babcock was born on 8 May 1883, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, John Niels Babcock, was 40 and his mother, Harriet Persis McKee, was 31. He married Beulah Daley on 14 January 1908, in Utah, Utah, United States. He lived in Springdale, Cassia, Idaho, United States in 1920 and Lone Star Election Precinct, Canyon, Idaho, United States in 1940. He died on 29 May 1962, in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Nampa, Canyon, Idaho, United States.