Ellis County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....Penn, Permelia 
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Richard Bradford bradford.richard@sbcglobal.net August 28, 2006, 12:03 pm

Cemetery:           Bee Creek Cemetary
Name:               Permelia Penn

Date Of Photograph: June 10, 2004
Photo can be seen at:
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The following was copied verbatim from the stone:
Permilia F. Penn
Born
July 7, 1824
Died
July 8, 1901
Mother, thou art now at home
Among angels fair above,
But yet below thy
Children must roam,
Till summon’d by
His love

This photograph was taken on a trip to the Waxahachie area (Purdon, TX)in June 
of 2004. The cemetary the gravestone is in is now on private property as the 
community of Bee Creek no longer exists - the land, I understand, was part of 
the failed "Super Collider" project. 

My Wife is a Penn. Permelia (her great grandmother) and her husband James Penn 
were in Warren County, TN in 1850 thru 1870. James must have died in Tennessee 
however we can find no record. Permelia, with her children came to Texas as her 
oldest son was already here at or near the Bee Creek, TX community.

We have tried to trace James and Permelia before 1850 but have had no luck. 

Additional Comments:
"Buried in "cashmere and finery" according to Susie Robertson. The family rose 
bush was planted on her grave (comment from Jane Penn Bradford; as of 2004, the 
rose bush is still there). She died July 18, 1901. Permetia Penn raised Susie 
Vancleave after her mother died leaving her at the age of 2 years old. Permetia 
was a Quaker.

According to Susie, Permetia's family had come from Baltimore, "Yankees of 
course," and Virginia. After the death of her husband she left two married 
daughters in TN and came to Texas in a covered wagon with her other children to 
Ellis County. I believe the reason that a woman with children would cross the 
country alone like that would be that she had relatives in Texas. I know that 
her daughter, Josie Penn (born April 18, 1861) was married to William Melvin 
Davidson and they lived on the Davidson Ranch in Ellis & Hill Counties, Texas. 
Permetia is buried in Bee Creek, Texas (where Susie was born)."
Source: Shan Wright
Granddaughter of Susie Frances Vancleave Robertson


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