Thank you for the wonderful story. My mom family moved from NC TO LEE CO ALSO. My mom was born in Pennington gap, va. Her family moved 2 yrs after she was born. I haven't seen what it looks like at POWELL RIVER, STONE CREEK. I had never heard of Stone creek and couldn't find it. My Mom told me she thought her Dad's mom was born there. But, I have no idea it was right there in the area my mom was born. Does anyone know how close pennington gap and stone creek are and What they look like? Does anyone know of a good book that has all the pictures in it of the area? Destini Martin --- On Mon, 7/21/08, kdhcherry@comcast.net <kdhcherry@comcast.net> wrote: > From: kdhcherry@comcast.net <kdhcherry@comcast.net> > Subject: Re: [VALEE] Pennington Gap > To: valee@rootsweb.com > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 8:16 AM > Pennington Gap was named for the Pennington family, which > immigrated from North Carolina to Lee county around 1800. > Edward Pennington (1769-1860) owned a farm on the North > Fork of the Powell River, where Pennington Gap now is. His > farm included a gap through Stone Mountain cut by Stone > Creek. The gap was a passage through the Cumberland > Mountains that was used, as was the more famous Cumberland > Gap sixty miles to the southwest, by settlers travelling > from the Valley of Virginia to Kentucky. > > The settlement became known as Pennington's, or > Pennington's Gap, and was shortened through usage. > Edward Pennington and his wife, Martha "Patsy" > Flanary, daughter of John Flanary, and one of Edward and > Martha's sons are buried in the Turner-Pennington > Cemetery overlooking the Powell River on State 621 just > east of US 421. > > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: LeeHash@aol.com > > > How did Pennington Gap get it's name > > Lee Hash > > > > > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live > scoring. Sign up for > > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > > > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VALEE-request@rootsweb.com > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of > > the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VALEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message

Stone Creek is that area from where 801 cuts off to go to St. Charles following on up 421 to the Ky. line. Lived there in my younger years. . --- Original Message ----- From: "Destini Warner" <kittykat9899@yahoo.com> To: <valee@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:27 AM Subject: Re: [VALEE] Pennington Gap > Thank you for the wonderful story. My mom family moved from NC TO LEE CO ALSO. My mom was born in Pennington gap, va. Her family moved 2 yrs after she was born. I haven't seen what it looks like at POWELL RIVER, STONE CREEK. I had never heard of Stone creek and couldn't find it. My Mom told me she thought her Dad's mom was born there. But, I have no idea it was right there in the area my mom was born. Does anyone know how close pennington gap and stone creek are and What they look like? Does anyone know of a good book that has all the pictures in it of the area? Destini Martin > > > --- On Mon, 7/21/08, kdhcherry@comcast.net <kdhcherry@comcast.net> wrote: > > > From: kdhcherry@comcast.net <kdhcherry@comcast.net> > > Subject: Re: [VALEE] Pennington Gap > > To: valee@rootsweb.com > > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 8:16 AM > > Pennington Gap was named for the Pennington family, which > > immigrated from North Carolina to Lee county around 1800. > > Edward Pennington (1769-1860) owned a farm on the North > > Fork of the Powell River, where Pennington Gap now is. His > > farm included a gap through Stone Mountain cut by Stone > > Creek. The gap was a passage through the Cumberland > > Mountains that was used, as was the more famous Cumberland > > Gap sixty miles to the southwest, by settlers travelling > > from the Valley of Virginia to Kentucky. > > > > The settlement became known as Pennington's, or > > Pennington's Gap, and was shortened through usage. > > Edward Pennington and his wife, Martha "Patsy" > > Flanary, daughter of John Flanary, and one of Edward and > > Martha's sons are buried in the Turner-Pennington > > Cemetery overlooking the Powell River on State 621 just > > east of US 421. > > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > From: LeeHash@aol.com > > > > > How did Pennington Gap get it's name > > > Lee Hash > > > > > > > > > > > > **************Get fantasy football with free live > > scoring. Sign up for > > > FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > > > > > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > VALEE-request@rootsweb.com > > > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of > > > the message > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > VALEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word > > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > > the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VALEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.526 / Virus Database: 270.5.3/1565 - Release Date: 7/21/08 6:36 PM > >