Robert Penland (1779 - 1856)

Born 15 Aug 1779 in Canoe Creek, Burke, North Carolina, United States

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Died 1856 at about age 76 in Fines Creek, Haywood, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Robert Penland, a son of Elder Robert Penland, of Burke County, and Elizabeth Brank, was born August 15, 1779, and married Mary B. Moore. He left Burke County in the latter part of the eighteenth century and settled in what is now Fines Creek township of Haywood County where he built a home now known as the Ed Ferguson farm.

He reared a family of children as follows:

• William married Polly Penland, a cousin, and lived on Turkey Creek;
• Robert Henry married Sarah Caroline Sitton and lived near the present site of Canton;
• James settled near Waynesville;
• George who married Emily Shook and lived at Clyde;
• Charles died in young manhood;
• Betsy, who married James Russell and lived on Fines Creek;
• Peggy, who married John Rogers and moved to Cherokee County;
• Caroline, who married James Russell, husband of the deceased Betsy;
• Avaline, who married first Marjoram Henry and lived on Jonathan Creek, and second Joseph Fincher;
• Polly Ann, who married Irvin Rice, slain during the Civil War by Federal renegades.

Sources

• The Annals of Haywood County, North Carolina by W.C. Allen (ISBN 0-87152-251-9)
• "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHL9-S1H : accessed 29 November 2017), Robert Penland, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 71, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 40; FHL microfilm 337,913.
• "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHGS-SMW : accessed 29 November 2017), Robert Penland, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing p. , NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 80; FHL microfilm 162,796.
• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH59-FWN : 22 August 2017), Robert Penland, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing 385, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 121; FHL microfilm 18,087.
• "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTJ-18D : 20 August 2017), Robert Penland, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing p. 107, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 362; FHL microfilm 18,094.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4BC-T89 : 12 April 2016), Robert Penlen, Haywood county, Haywood, North Carolina, United States; citing family 203, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKBP-TZ6F : 20 November 2015), Robert Penland, 1859; citing Haywood County, North Carolina, United States, State Archives, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 2,315,389.