Ia tusia se faaauauga o lenei palakalafa - Na fanau o ia i le aso 20 o Iuni, 1937, o le atalii o le Kapeteni o John Davidson Hill Hoyt (1898<unk>1943), o lē sa tautua i le 307th Bomb Group, 372d Bombardment Squadron ma na fasiotia i se faalavelave i le talafatai o Kauai, Hawaiian Islands. O ona matua matutua o William B. Hoyt, o se pule i le Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, ma Esther Lapham (née Hill) Hoyt. O lona tina matua, o Esther Hoyt, o le avā a Ansley Wilcox Sawyer, o le uso o Ansley Wilcox (o se uo a Theodore Roosevelt o lona fale i Delaware Avenue o le nofoaga o le tofiga a Roosevelt ina ua mavae le fasiotiga
o le Peresitene o William McKinley).