When Harry Aney was born on 16 April 1898, in Pine Island, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States, his father, Lewis Hiram Aney, was 31 and his mother, Annie Belle Pettingell, was 27. He married Lucy Arvilla Baker on 12 October 1940, in Fillmore, Minnesota, United States. He lived in West Concord, Dodge, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Pine Island, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States in 1930. He died on 24 December 1963, in Olmsted, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Pine Island Township, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States.