When Howard Eugene Geddings was born on 23 August 1912, in Privateer, Sumter, South Carolina, United States, his father, Ned Samuel Geddings, was 34 and his mother, Clara Estelle Mc Leod, was 27. He married Maggie Lee Mc Leod on 9 February 1935. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Friendship Twp, Clarendon, South Carolina, United States in 1930 and Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States in 2008. He died on 20 March 1986, in Sumter, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina, United States.