When Emma Elizabeth Pennington was born on 30 August 1868, in Newton, Newton, Mississippi, United States, her father, Eli M. Pennington, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth M. Day, was 30. She married James Abraham Ledlow on 10 December 1890. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 1, Gregg, Texas, United States in 1920 and Justice Precinct 4, Harrison, Texas, United States in 1930. She died on 12 April 1933, in Longview, Gregg, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Decatur, Newton, Mississippi, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Upshur, Texas, United States 1873: Gregg, Texas, United States. [Spreads across Gregg and Harrison counties]
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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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