Brief Life History of Cothern Barton
When Cothern Barton Pennington was born on 9 August 1895, in Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States, his father, Silvester Burell Pennington, was 26 and his mother, Dicy B Sprowl, was 21. He married Verda Bell Jamerson on 22 July 1917, in Clay, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 5 East Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 8 September 1980, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Bailey Cemetery, Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Cothern Pennington, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Cothern Barton Pennington - birth: 9 August 1895; Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States
- Cathern Pennington, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
Spouse and Children
1895–1980 Male
1900–1973 Female
Children (6)
1918–2002 Female
1920–1978 Female
1923– Male
1928–1998 Male
1934–1975 Female
+1 More Child
Parents and Siblings
1869–1945 Male
1874–1943 Female
Siblings (4)
1893–1967 Male
1895–1980 Male
1898–1900 Male
1901–1982 Male
World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 1
1900 · Governor Shot
Age 5
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
Age 23
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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