When Henry Edward Lance was born on 7 December 1860, in Hoopers Creek, Henderson, North Carolina, United States, his father, Newton Jasper Lance, was 28 and his mother, Margarette Maloney, was 24. He married Mary Margaret Jane "Mollie" Sorrells on 5 December 1900, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870. He died on 22 June 1938, in Fletcher, Henderson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fletcher, Henderson, North Carolina, United States.