When Baxter Davis Pennington was born in April 1861, in Izard, Arkansas, United States, his father, John J. Pennington, was 43 and his mother, Artelisa Cox, was 39. He married Hattie Tennessee Reed on 28 June 1888, in Marion, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Prairie Township, Searcy, Arkansas, United States in 1920 and Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1941, at the age of 80, and was buried in Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1877: Searcy, Arkansas, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the 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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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