When Rachel Lona Penley was born on 8 June 1893, in Scott, Virginia, United States, her father, Samuel Penley, was 37 and her mother, Priscilla Ann Price, was 27. She married Worley Clayton Lane on 31 December 1911. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States in 1930 and Estillville District, Scott, Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 29 October 1948, at the age of 55, and was buried in Holston View Cemetery, Weber City, Scott, Virginia, United States.
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English (Gloucestershire and Worcestershire): habitational name from Penleigh in Dilton, Wiltshire. The placename probably derives from Old English penn ‘fold, enclosure’, or perhaps Celtic penn ‘head’, + Old English lēah ‘wood, woodland clearing’. It is perhaps also a variant of Pendley . This surname is rare in Britain and Ireland.
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