Tom Pennington wrote: > his name was;Wilson Pennington, born Ky. > 1809. He lived and died in the area of Jackson co., Tn and Monroe > county, Ky. dying in the 1870 -75 period as far as can be determined. > He married Elizabeth Denham and had four children Tom, my ggg-grandmother, Elizabeth Pennington, b. 1790, m. 1806, Rodden Thompson, b. 1769, Pittsylvania Co., Va. I don't know who her parents were. Rodden and his father, Archibald Thompson, b. 1736, settled along the Cumberland River in what is now Monroe Co., KY., near the Tennessee (now Clay Co.) line; Jackson Co., Tenn., also borders Monroe. Elizabeth was twenty-one when she married Rodden, who had previously been married to Mary Ray. So far as I've been able to learn, Elizabeth's family does not connect to my other Pennington line, which is Lucy Bugg (m. James Gee in 1797), whose mother was Lucy Pennington, a descendant of Sir Thomas Pidington (Pennington) of old Surry. Doug Moore has researched the Pennington line in Monroe-Jackson-Clay Counties, and you can check his web page at http://www.public.edu/~moore or http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=dou gmoore to see what he might have for your Wilson. I'll check to see what I can find, and also look for the Denham family, as I believe they are also a Monroe County family. Here's the Elizabeth and Rodden family as I have it now, based on several sources, including Doug Moore: Descendants of Elizabeth Pennington 1 Elizabeth Pennington 1790 - . +Rodden Thompson 1769 - 1852 .... 2 Elswick Thompson 1807 - ........ +Martha Rush 1808 - .... *2nd Wife of Elswick Thompson: ........ +Mary Haney Hix 1839 - .... 2 Lydia Thompson 1809 - .... 2 William Thompson 1812 - 1843 ........ +Mary Rush 1815 - .... 2 John Thompson 1815 - ........ +Phoebe Emmert 1820 - .... 2 Roden Thompson 1819 - 1846 ........ +Jane Means Harlan 1819 - 1889 .... 2 Wes Thompson 1820 - .... 2 Nancy L. Thompson 1826 - 1853 ........ +James Lewis Hamilton 1824 - 1902 .... 2 Simpson Thompson 1829 - .... 2 Elizabeth Thompson 1831 - ........ +James (Jim) Rush 1832 - .... 2 Elmirah Thompson 1835 - 1924 ........ +Hiram Livingston Bailey 1838 - 1924