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In June 1907, Hafen married Daisy Marie Nelson, who died in spring 1908 in childbirth along with the baby.<ref name="bytes" /> He married Ella Lowry, George Anderson's niece in June 1909 with whom he had five children.<ref name="bytes" /><ref name="hafen" />
Hafen was a member of the LDS Church and joined the West Tintic Cooperative in 1919, which began as an economic experiment and evolved into a religious group. They differed from the LDS Church in that they emphasized dream interpretation and sacrifice. They practiced "wife sacrifice" or the sharing of wives among the men of the group. Despite not having participated in wife sacrifice, the LDS Church excommunicated Hafen and disfellowshipped his wife Ella for condoning the practice as branch president and for expressing loyalty to Moses Gudmundson, the group's leader. After Hafen died, his wife moved in with the Gudmundson family.<ref name="
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