 Birth | about 1874 28 28 |
 Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 4 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Birth of a brother | Samuel P Penland October 5, 1879 (Age 5 years) |
| Birth of a sister | Mary Emma Penland August 17, 1884 (Age 10 years) |
| Marriage of a parent | Robert Hamilton Penland — Martha E “Mattie” Moore — View this family March 4, 1886 (Age 12 years) |
| Death of a mother | Harriett Eliza Burgin between 1884 and 1886 (Age 10 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Raymond Herbert Penland June 28, 1888 (Age 14 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Bonnie E Penland October 1890 (Age 16 years) |
| Birth of a half-sister | Nina Lesley Penland March 1892 (Age 18 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Gay Harvey Penland March 22, 1895 (Age 21 years) |
| Birth of a half-brother | Charles Wesley Penland October 5, 1897 (Age 23 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 24 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Marriage of a parent | Robert Hamilton Penland — Jessie B Nicholson — View this family November 21, 1904 (Age 30 years) |
| Death of a brother | Samuel P Penland March 26, 1913 (Age 39 years) |
| Death of a half-sister | Minnie Marion Young June 25, 1913 (Age 39 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 42 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 43 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 44 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Death of a father | Robert Hamilton Penland September 12, 1925 (Age 51 years) |
| Death of a half-brother | Raymond Herbert Penland March 10, 1928 (Age 54 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 55 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Death of a half-brother | Gay Harvey Penland August 3, 1930 (Age 56 years) |
 Death | July 18, 1931 (Age 57 years) |