Brief Life History of Carleton Saunders
When Carleton Saunders Penn was born on 10 April 1893, in Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia, United States, his father, James Thomas Penn, was 37 and his mother, Nannie Lucretia Hartley, was 34. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Virginia Lewis Burks. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1893 and Roanoke, Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 9 September 1952, in Richmond, Virginia, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in East Hill Cemetery, Salem, Virginia, United States.
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- Carleton S Penn in household of Jas T Penn, "United States Census, 1920"
- Carlton S Penn, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Carleton Penn, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
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1894 · Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument
On May 30, 18944 the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument was unveiled. It is 73 feet high and over looks Libby Hill Park. the statue represents the 13 Confederate States.
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.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places called Penn (in Buckinghamshire and Staffordshire), both of which are named with Brittonic penn ‘head’, often used in hill-names.
English: topographic name or metonymic occupational name from Middle English pen(n) ‘enclosure, animal pen, fold’ (Old English penn), for someone who lived by or worked at a fold. Examples of this surname are formally difficult to distinguish from those in 1 above.
English: from a pet form of the female personal name Pernel, see Parnell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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