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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- 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"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1900 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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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