When Harold Lovejoy Crawford was born on 3 August 1899, in Wakonda, Clay, South Dakota, United States, his father, Elmer Taylor Crawford, was 33 and his mother, Josephine A "Josie" Lovejoy, was 23. He married Beatrice Martha Fairfield on 4 August 1920, in Clay, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 8 November 1948, in Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington, United States.