In a message dated 3/31/99 3:34:21 PM Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << It seems that we have ruffled a few feathers. Seems like no one wants to hear that Henry C. Pennington, and Virginia C. Pennington, were cousins who married. This comes pretty close to what my father was telling me, but he thought they were brother and sister. As hard as it is to accept, cousins did marry back in "the good ole days." >> From my own personal research into lines in the 1700s, marriages between cousins was not uncommon. I have many descendents on all sorts of lines.... Looks at Plymouth, Massachusetts. LOTS of family ties. European nobility was worse that what America ever did... One king was related to himself 17 different ways...!