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On the back of this picture is written: "Our mothers sisters" by one of my Aunties
Children and Grandchildren of William Marion and Abigail (Tucker) PENNINGTON
Rita CLARA Alice Florence BELLE ROSE Blanche Joyce
The Family of William Marion Pennington and Abigail Marie Tucker
Maryland, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Iowa, Nebraska, Montanna, Washington, Oregon
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Aunt Lucy Pennington
Aunt Lucy was the youngest child of William Marion and Abigail. Lucy gave up a daughter for adoption shortly after she was born. The daughter, Our Cousin Pat Smith, found us in 2000, a heartfelt journey for all of us.
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Aunt
Lucy had no other children of her own, but she raised three stepchildren in her second marriage. She died wondering what had happened to the little girl she had given up for adoption. The State of Michigan prevented opening the files for either birthmother or child, so the Mother and Child Reunion didn't happen for two people who could have shared a great deal of love, had they not
been prevented by "The Government."
Cyndi's List: Help On the Internet Finding Parents/Children
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This is Our Cousin Tim
Smith, Pat's son, and his wife Odile. Below is their beautiful
house, in the greater Philadelphia area, built 1805 by Joshua Canby , who was a sometime employer of the Quaker painter Edward Hicks. In is a strange irony that both the Canby and Hicks families had ties to the Penningtons.
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Tim & Odille's House,
built in 1805 by
Joshua Canby
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Joshua Canby was a Quaker and a coachmaker, and it was for him that Edward Hicks worked prior to establishing himself as an outstanding artist. A beautiful site entitled The Web of TIme, showing examples of Hicks'
best known subject, The Peaceable Kingdom, quite by
accident gave me another clue about our family connections.
One of Hicks' signboards shown at this site is for Henry Van
Horn's Carpentry shop. The Web of Time turned out to be an a
ffirmation of its title.
Abigail Tucker Pennington was
a descemdamt of Mary Van Horn who married Mordecai Williams, and
also of the Quaker Smart Family who arrived in the Delaware River Valley several years before William Penn! Aren't circles of kinship simply amazing?
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