When Peter Nero Howard was born on 15 October 1899, in Howell Township, Howell, Missouri, United States, his father, John Armstrong Howard, was 34 and his mother, Martha Ann Taylor, was 30. He married Myrtle Mae Wicker on 18 August 1920, in West Plains, Howell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Benton Township, Howell, Missouri, United States for about 10 years and Bennett Bayou Township, Fulton, Arkansas, United States in 1940. He died on 14 December 1962, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Bakersfield Cemetery, Bakersfield, Ozark, Missouri, United States.