When Leland Duwayne Weight was born on 7 April 1908, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Martin Francis Weight, was 35 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Gee, was 29. He married Ada Marie Adams on 15 August 1930, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He lived in Salt Lake City Ward 2, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years. He died on 24 March 1956, in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.