When Alfred Haws was born on 6 September 1807, in Logan, Kentucky, United States, his father, Jacob Haws, was 41 and his mother, Hannah Neill, was 38. He married Millie Linder on 10 February 1827, in Xenia, Clay, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. He lived in Wayne, DuPage, Illinois, United States in 1850. In 1850, at the age of 42, his occupation is listed as farmer in Wayne, Illinois, United States. He died in 1881, in Wasatch, Utah, United States, at the age of 74.