My husband's ancestor, Thomas HANCOCK, was said to have lived in New
Pennington, Decatur Co., IN (bur New Pennington Cemetery) which I believe is
on the border of Ripley and Decatur Cos. New Pennington appears to be a
defunct village now and appears to have been renamed New Point. Anyone have
any information on this village or its history? Possibly named for this
PENNINGTON family at one time???
Audrey Shields Hancock
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Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: INRIPLEY-D Digest V99 #58
I do not know if this information I am going to quote from
"History of
Dearborn and Ohio Counties, IN--1885" will shed any light but here it is
(Note that the name in this Bio is Catherine and not Jacob but it may
contain
leads):
Quote: J. C. Pennington, lumber dealer, Moore's Hill, was born at New
Paris,
Preble Co., OH, May 5, 1830. The ancestry of the Pennington family in
the
United States dates back to 1682m in which year Edward Pennington emigrated
with William Penn from England to the State of Pennsylvania. He located at
Philadelphia, where he died in 1701. He was united in marriage, in 1699,
to
Sarah Jennings, daughter of Samuel Jennings, the Quaker governor of
New
Jersey, by whom he had one son, Isaacm from whom the Penningtons of
Philadelphia descended. His son, Daniel, settled in Maryland, where he
raised a large family. Amos, his son, settled in Huntingdon County, Penn.,
and from thence, in an early day, immigrated to Barnsville, Belmont Co.,
Ohio, where he died. He left four sons, viz,: Daniel, Joshua, James, and
John, the latter the father of our subject, who was born in Huntingdon,
Belmont County, Penn, where he maried, in 1820,
Elizabeth Thompson, and in 1826 moved to Richmond, Ind., where Mrs. P. died
December 13, 1847. He survived her until March 26, 1856, and died at the
residence of our subject, in Ripley County. He was the father of eight
children, viz., Eli, Ellen, Mary, Deborah M., Joel C., Bryce C., William
G.,
and Isaac C. J. C., our subject, was married in Ripley County,
Ind.,
September 24, 1851, to Catherine, daughter of John and Catherine (Risinger)
Dorsh, who was born in Pennsylvania, September 27, 1830. In January 1852,
Mr. Pennington purchased a farm in Riplkey County, where he moved and
engaged
in farming till September 1873, at which time he moved to Moore's
Hill,
where
he now resides. His wife died November 30, 1867. Their eight
children
were:
Medora D. (deceased), John C., Ella M. (deceased), Joel E., Laura H.,
Mary
L., Charles M. (deceased), and Martha A. (deceased). Mr. Pennington was
again married at Moore's Hill, March qw, 1874, to Elizabeth F., daughter of
Morton and Dorcas T. (Eaton) Justis, who was born in Dearborn County,
November 7, 1832. They have one child, Walter E. Mr. Pennington is a
member
of the Masonic order and is highly esteemed as a citizen."
Unquote.
This information is located on pages 867, 868 of the referenced book.
I hope this provides some clues and does not muddy the water. There are no
other names located in this book which was published by F. E. Weakley &
Co.,
Publishers, Chicago in 1885. I have the original copy which has been
handed
down in my husbands family.
Ragadass(a)aol.com
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