When Madge Chloe Pennington was born on 5 December 1934, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States, her father, Cothern Barton Pennington, was 39 and her mother, Verda Bell Jamerson, was 34. She lived in Magisterial District 5 East Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1940. She died on 3 February 1975, in Hestand, Monroe, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 40, and was buried in Bailey Cemetery, Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States.
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.
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