Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Pennington, T. J. June 23 1840 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   T. J. PENNINGTON, planter, of Rockford, Ala., is a son of Thomas and Elinda
(Phillipps) Pennington. The Pennington family is of English descent, and settled
in South Carolina before the Revolutionary war. Ephraim Pennington, the father
of Thomas, settled in Jasper county, Ga., where he raised his family. There
Thomas Pennington was born, about 1802, and was reared and married there. Soon
after his marriage he removed to Meriwether county, Ga., where he died, in 1842.
He took great interest in politics, and held several offices of honor and trust.
He was a democrat. The Phillipps family is a large and prominent one in Georgia
and Alabama. Thomas Pennington and his wife had a family of eleven children,
only three of whom are now living, viz.: T. J.; Elizabeth, widow of Judge John
S. Bently, Rockford, Ala.; Nancy A., widow of Rev. Harry Stearns, Rockford, Ala.
Four of their sons lost their lives in the army. Hilary died of disease; James
was captured at Murfreesboro and was never heard of afterward; Thaddeus died of
disease, and Winn also died of disease-small-pox. The mother of these children
died in 1887, in her eighty-third year. T. J. Pennington was born June 23, 1840,
in Meriwether county, Ga. He was educated at Central institute, then in Coosa
county, but which has since ceased to exist. He left the school-room to enter
the army, and enlisted as a private soldier in company R, Third Alabama
regiment, in 1861. This regiment was the first that left the state; he was at
the battle of Seven Pines, Seven Days' Fight, and in the Wilderness, where he
was severely wounded in the thigh. He spent some time in a hospital on account
of his wound, and was not again in active service. He was at home at the time of
the surrender. After the war he was a teacher in Central institute for two
years, and afterward at Rockford six years. He then engaged in farming and has
devoted himself to agriculture ever since. He has a plantation of 700 acres of
land within half a mile of Rockford. He has represented the educational
interests of Coosa county eighteen years. He was elected county superintendent,
of education in 1870, and served till 1890, with a short intermission. He was
married December 19, 1869, in Coosa county, to Mary L., daughter of G. Bently.
Mrs. Pennington died September 14, 1889, leaving no children. Mr. Pennington
married June 8, 1890, in Elmore county, Miss Fanny Howle. To this union was born
one child, Jefferson Cumley. In politics Mr. Pennington is a democrat; he is a
royal arch Mason and secretary of the chapter; is a member of the Missionary
Baptist church, and is deacon of his church; is also superintendent of the
Sunday-school, and is a member of the board of trustees of the high school. He
has always been a stanch and true friend of education, and while superintendent
of education for the county did much to build up the country schools, the
peoples' seminaries of learning.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 737-738



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