Hi Edwin, I am forwarding a copy of your email to the PRA mailing list. Some of our PRA Group Leaders do not monitor both Pennington mailing lists only the PRA mailing list. Hopefully, that will get some answers to your questions. Thanks for posting. Rene'e Davis, CFO ARD, Family Groups PRA - Group 9 Pennington Research Association, Inc. www.penningtonresearch.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ewin Kiser" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:14 PM Subject: [Pennington-L] FW: Group V > > This is to hopefully attract Gr. V researchers (including Jeannie Thomas), > as well as any others who can help sort Penningtons in SW Virginia in the > 1800 to 1830 period. I am still struggling to identify children of Rev. > Charles. It seems logical that with families as large as they were in the > early 1800's that Charles and Cassandra had children other than John and > Effie. > > Working from the date of Rev. Charles and Cassandras marriage as "about > 1871" and the date of birth of their son John as 1782, it seems pretty solid > that he was the first son. The next known child, Effie, has a birth date of > 1787, so this leaves room for maybe four children in between and several > afterward. > > In combing records in Grayson County VA in the 1790 - 1810 era, I have > developed a list of young males who are candidates as sons of Charles and > Cassandra. They are Isaac, James and Charles Jr. > > Rev. Charles and John moved to the north to Russell Co. VA in 1807 - 1808, > and lived there about five years, after which they moved to White County TN. > In Russell County, Charles and son John both bought parcels of land. Just > before leaving Russell County, John sold one of his parcels of land but Rev. > Charles did not sell his parcel. Much later, Rev. Charles gave John Power > of Attorney and in 1832 John sold Rev. Charles' parcel as well as his own > remaining land. Thus the big question - Why would this land just sit there > for twenty years, or maybe some of his relatives stayed there, or perhaps > Rev. Charles returned there on occasion to perform his pastoral duties. > > I have also been intrigued with the Lee Co. VA census of 1830, which on page > 315 contained 27 names, eight of which are Penningtons. Four of these, > which are adjacent, are: Charles, John, James (all names that Charles son > John named his children) and Miiajlor (probably Micajah). Others on this > page are David, and Edward, Thomas and Samuel (which are next to each > other). > > The bottom line is - Does anyone have information about the identy of these > SW VA folks and can they be identified as or not being of the Rev. Charles > line. Would appreciate any help or ideas. > > Ewin Kiser > > > ==== PENNINGTON Mailing List ==== > Please do not post virus warnings on this list. > Practice safe e-mail habits and only open attachments you're expecting > For addition virus info see http://www.symantec.com/us.index.html or > http://www.mcafee.com/ > >