​Pennington Family Cemetery

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Marker No: 9319

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 30.66765, -97.63415

Location: Off FM 971, 1.8 miles east in Pennington Place Estates, south on Settlers Path, corner of Founders Oak Way and Pennington Lane

Marker Text: ​Born in Fannin County , Texas, during the Republic of Texas period, John Parker Pennington (1840-1904), lived as a young man in Arizona territory. As a member of one of the first families to settle in  the territory he survived several deadly encounters with the region's Native Americans. He participated in the Civil War then moved his family to Texas in 1867. The first recorded burial was that of Pennington's sister, Margaret (Mag) Dennison, in 1872. John Pennington , his two wives, Emily J. McAllister (d. 1880) and Isabelle Purcell (d. 1916), and their descendants are interred here. (1995)