When William Edgar Penland was born on 26 January 1920, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Samuel Sherman Penland, was 54 and his mother, Emma Catherine Buchannan, was 42. He died on 15 December 1988, in Union, Union, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in New Hope Methodist Church Cemetery, Jonesville, Union, South Carolina, United States.
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Possibly an altered form of Pentland or a habitational name from Penlan Hall, Essex or Penlan Farm in Hereford and Worcester. There are also numerous places in Wales named Penlan, notably in Dyfed, and the name may have been adopted on arrival in the US by immigrants from any of these places.
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