When Polly Walling was born in 1813, in Brown Cemetery, White, Tennessee, United States, her father, Joseph Elisha Walling, was 41 and her mother, Katherine Katie Anderson, was 28. She had at least 3 sons and 5 daughters with Richard Pennington. She lived in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States in 1860 and Justice Precinct 5, Houston County, Texas, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 March 1895, in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas, United States.
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German (Wälling): from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name formed with walt ‘rule’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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