On Wednesday, December 08, 1999 Kathern Cochrane [email protected] wrote "Ah, ha! The "other" Timothy in KY! I'm very happy to hear from someonewith info on this family. As you may know, there was a Timothy Penningtonwho lived in Barren Co., KY who is thought to be the son of Ephraim of NCand brother of Richard P. who married Hannah Boone Stewart, but there havebeen "rumors" of another Timothy in the same time and nearby, so it's sometimes difficult to sort out who was who, or even if they were different people or not. With the name Ephraim appearing among your Timothy'sdescendants it's tempting to think that maybe, just maybe, there was aclose relationship or even identity between the two Timothy's in late 18thcent. KY." ect ect ect Dear Katherine, the earliest ancestor of my line is an Ephraim Pennington born about 1740 who lived in Montgomery County Va. He married a girl named McAlister whose given name is thought to be Sallie. She bore him one son and died shortly after his birth. This son's name was Timothy Pennington He was born in 1759 and died in 1801 at the age of 41. This Timothy married Mart Fullen of Rockbridge County Virginia on Nov. 10 1785. Mary Fullen was the sister in law of Col. William Whitley the Semi- Famous Frontiersman as her sister Esther had married him at the age of 15 some years before. Timothy and Mary migrated to Lincoln County Kentucky in the late 1700's where Col. William Whitley had established a fort known as Whitley Station There they raised a large family of seven children including an Ephraim who became a Judge. and James whose son, John, had Pennington, California named after him. I have a pretty complete history of this family from this point up to the early 1900's if anyone out there is interested. The strange habit of naming boys Ephraim and Timothy has continued up until today, as my own favorite uncle is Timothy Pennington of Frankfort Kentucky who is alive and well as I write this. The point that I am trying to research is who was Ephraim's (the Ephraim born about 1740 mentioned above) father. The family history as set down by Ephraim Pennington "The Judge" states that his Grandfather Ephraim (the 1740 guy) was supposedly the son of a English Sea Captain named Joseph Pennington who was a younger son of The Lord Muncaster of Muncaster Castle. This Joseph was supposed to have migrated to Pennsylvania It actually says the word supposedly in our family history, I guess this is sort of like being Virtually Positive. To be honest with you I dont know how much stock to put into this English Seas Captain Story. It is recorded in our family history as mentioned above and Ephraim "The Judges" Son, Timothy M. Pennington, did in fact correspond with the last Baron Muncaster around the turn of the century and they were trying to figure out if they were related Ephraim Pennington was a Judge and I can't imagine that he would make this up or that he would have even have known that there was such a place as Muncaster Castle unless members of his family had told him so. This was early 1800's when just owning a book was a big deal, hardly like today when you can just web surf over to Muncaster.Com ( actually http://www.muncastercastle.co.uk ) and check things out. Personally I believe that my Pennington line is related to the Group 4 Ephraims and Timothy's who are in turn related to the group 1 Ephrams and Timothy's from New Jersey. I find it hard to believe that people from four or five different States with the same last name would just spontaneously start to name there children Ephraim and Timothy, like something out of an X Files episode unless they were related. I wait someone's hopefully enlightened response Sincerely Yours Charles B. Pennington III [email protected] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com