 Birth | October 5, 1897 51 34 |
 Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 5 months)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 |
 Census | June 6, 1900 (Age 2 years) |
 Death of a mother | Martha E “Mattie” Moore February 18, 1904 (Age 6 years) |
| Marriage of a parent | Robert Hamilton Penland — Jessie B Nicholson — View this family November 21, 1904 (Age 7 years) |
| Death of a half-brother | Samuel P Penland March 26, 1913 (Age 15 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 18 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 19 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 20 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 27 years) |
| Death of a brother | Raymond Herbert Penland March 10, 1928 (Age 30 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 31 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 brother | Gay Harvey Penland August 3, 1930 (Age 32 years) |
| Death of a half-brother | John Robert Penland July 18, 1931 (Age 33 years) |
| Death of a half-sister | Martha Adeline “Addie” Penland February 7, 1935 (Age 37 years) |
| Death of a half-brother | Albert Aston Penland January 1, 1939 (Age 41 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 44 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
 Death | January 23, 1945 (Age 47 years) |