This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PENWELL Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.texas.counties.fannin/1282.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Am not related but may be of interest. Would appear letter received by J.C. PENWELL was in error, but may be of use in tracing Penwell's in CA. I have no further info but additional newspaper extracts may be found at URL: www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php The extract below was posted to the website just recently, so there may be additional info in subsequent postings, such as a retraction/clarification of the 7/22/1861 post. Vern D //////////////////////////////////////////// Transcribed by Dee Sardoch ////////////////////////////////////////// Stockton Daily Argus Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA ************************* >>Monday, 22 July 1861<< MURDER of UNION MEN -- J.C. PENWELL, of Napa, has just received a letter from Bonham, Texas, stating that his cousin, Eli PENWELL, an eminent physician of that place, with 9 others, had been hung by the Secessionists for expressing Union sentiments.