When Harold Nelson Southard was born on 16 June 1925, in Safe, Maries, Missouri, United States, his father, FRED OSCAR SOUTHARD, was 21 and his mother, IRMA ALARA CLARK, was 20. He married Frances Ellen Edwards on 24 December 1946, in Phelps, Missouri, United States. He died on 7 March 2002, in Columbia, Boone, Missouri, United States, at the age of 76.