When Harry Edward Snodgrass was born on 9 May 1899, in Pine Township, Ripley, Missouri, United States, his father, Franklin Napoleon Snodgrass, was 18 and his mother, Fannie Woodring, was 19. He married Beulah May Davidson on 7 January 1926, in Biggers, Randolph, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Randolph, Arkansas, United States in 1935 and Wilson Township, Clay, Arkansas, United States in 1940. He died on 12 March 1974, in Corning, Clay, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Corning, Clay, Arkansas, United States.