When Lillie Mae Pennington was born on 14 October 1883, in Tennessee, United States, her father, David Newton Pennington, was 28 and her mother, Mary A Pennington, was 23. She married John Frank Blue on 6 October 1909, in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 31 October 1929, in Lawrence, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Henryville Cemetery, Henryville, Lawrence, Tennessee, 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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