When Howard Pendleton was born on 20 February 1871, his father, Capt Elias Cornelius Pendleton, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Sturtevant, was 35. He died in December 1874, at the age of 3.
English: habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire (in Eccles and Whalley, respectively) called Pendleton, from the hill name Pendle + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, estate, settlement’.
History: The Pendleton family were established in Caroline County, VA, by Philip Pendleton, a schoolmaster from Norwich, England, who immigrated to North America in 1682.
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