Peter Crim (V) was the second son and third child of John Wesley Crim and his first wife, Sarah Ann Drucilla Moore. His older siblings were Eli and Nancy Elizabeth "Bettie". A younger brother, John Akin, would join the family when Peter was 1 1/2 years old.

Unfortunately, Peter's mother died just nine days after the birth of John Akin. His father remarried Harriett E. Daniel soon afterwards and the family grew with the births of Peter's half siblings, James "Jim" Thomas, William Henry "Henry", and Wesley Lafayette. Harriett is believed to have died when Peter was 7 or 8 years old. For the second time in his young life Peter was left without a mother.

The bereaved John Wesley married for the third time -- this time to Minerva Caroline Ro(d)gers, the lady who would raise, as her own, Peter and John Wesley's other children. Eight more children would be born to the marriage of John Wesley and Minerva: Joshua, Mary Anjaline, Martha Jane "Jane", Abraham (died in infancy), Zillah Catherine, Ammie Zoniah, Robert "Bob" David, and Jesse Lee.

Family oral history is that Peter was severely injured when a mule kicked him in the head. Peter recovered but the injury left him with lifelong challenges that prevented his doing many of the things he might otherwise have accomplished.

Nevertheless, Peter became skilled in woodworking and ran the family woodworking shop. It is said his craftsmanship was unsurpassed and he made "fine" furniture -- including complete bedroom suites, chests, tables and chairs. It is probable that the same woodworking shop also turned out the axe handles and wagons that the family sold.

Peter did not marry. He continued living at home even after his father's death in 1910 and, no doubt, was a great comfort and help to his step-mother and his unmarried half sister, Ammie, who also had remained at home.

On November 12, 1912, Peter died at the age of 62. It was only 2 1/2 years after the death of his father. By then, his step-mother, Minerva, was receiving a small widow's pension from her husband's service to the Confederacy during the War Between the States. Somehow, over a period of years, she managed to save enough from that meager income to purchase and place a nice marker at Peter's grave, Harless Cemetery, Shelby County, Alabama. In some ways it was an ordinary gesture but for those who knew family circumstances and how much Minerva had come to love her stepson, it was a most meaningful sacrifice and tribute to Peter.