When Arland Smith Perrell was born about 3 February 1915, in Upper Creek Township, Burke, North Carolina, United States, his father, Walter Luther Perrell, was 45 and his mother, Martha Zeta Swearngan, was 28. He married Lola Mae Wiseman on 22 October 1940, in Elizabethton, Carter, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Morganton, Burke, North Carolina, United States in 1974. He died on 30 April 1974, in Valdese, Burke, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Drexel Township, Burke, North Carolina, United States.