Pennington Family Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Founders Oak Way, Georgetown, Texas

( Off FM 971, 1.8 mi. E in Pennington Place Estates, S on Settlers Path, corner of Founders Oak Way and Pennington Ln)

Marker installed: 1994

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).

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