Delaware Co. PAGenWeb Archives Obituaries - Topsy PENNINGTON, undated

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PENNINGTON, Topsy; undated
 
                   Survivor of Slavery Dies at Media Home 
 
              TOPSY PENNINGTON, a survivor of an old type of slavery 
          in Maryland, died Saturday night in Media Hospital at the 
          estimated age of 71.
 
              Both of her names were adopted. TOPSY was taken from 
          a character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and PENNINGTON was 
          taken from FRANK and FANNY PENNINGTON to whom she 
          was "bound out" at the age of two.
 
              TOPSY suffered a stroke while visiting at the home of 
          MRS. ELIZABETH YARNALL, 2 W. Front St., a grand daughter 
          of the Penningtons. Funeral services were held Tuesday from
          The Rigby Funeral Home in Media.
          
 
           "Bound Out"
              TOPSY was an orphan but through the system of slavery in
          practice at that time, she was bound out to the PENNINGTON'S.
          During her childhood at the PENNINGTONS' home in Rock Hall,
          Md., the family used to read her Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel
          and she would enact the story. She was known as TOPSY from
          that time on.
 
 
 
 
Source: Media - Upper Providence Library
            1 East Front Street, Media, Pennsylvania  19063
            Delaware County
            Telephone 610 - 566 - 1918
            Media Borough Obituaries