Obituary:
DIED.
PENNINGTON--Mr. Charles W. Pennington, at Lennox Station [sic], Warren county, Illinois, May 5, 1875, aged about 38 years, and buried at his old home, Penningtons Point, in McDonough county, where his parents, Richard and Delilah Pennington, still reside.
Charles joined company C, 84th Ill. Vol. Infantry when organized in 1862. He was appointed Sergeant, and participated with the regiment in the battles of Stone River, Chicamauga [sic], Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and the many battles and skirmishes of the Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville campaigns, and was mustered out with the Regiment at the close of the war in 1865.
He will be remembered by his comrades as one of the true and faithful soldiers. The various battle fields [sic] through which he passed, testify more eloquently than it is possible for our poor pen, of the immortal service which he so heartily rendered to our beloved country in the hour of her greatest need.
He lost a younger brother of the tender age of about sixteen years, at the battle of Stones River. He fell in the midst of the fight pierced with the deadly minnie, while nobly doing his duty; and now himself, a little later, but not less certainly, falls a victim to those shafts of the enemy, received through so many days and nights of danger, hardship, heat, cold, and anxious watching.
He leaves a wife and child and many friends to mourn his early death, and to his surviving comrades the beautiful lesson, "Be a hero in the strife."
— The Macomb Journal; Thursday, May 13, 1875, p. 3.
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Charles, Elizabeth and their daughter were counted in Lenox Township, Warren County, in the census of 1870.
Obituary:
DIED.
PENNINGTON--Mr. Charles W. Pennington, at Lennox Station [sic], Warren county, Illinois, May 5, 1875, aged about 38 years, and buried at his old home, Penningtons Point, in McDonough county, where his parents, Richard and Delilah Pennington, still reside.
Charles joined company C, 84th Ill. Vol. Infantry when organized in 1862. He was appointed Sergeant, and participated with the regiment in the battles of Stone River, Chicamauga [sic], Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and the many battles and skirmishes of the Atlanta, Franklin and Nashville campaigns, and was mustered out with the Regiment at the close of the war in 1865.
He will be remembered by his comrades as one of the true and faithful soldiers. The various battle fields [sic] through which he passed, testify more eloquently than it is possible for our poor pen, of the immortal service which he so heartily rendered to our beloved country in the hour of her greatest need.
He lost a younger brother of the tender age of about sixteen years, at the battle of Stones River. He fell in the midst of the fight pierced with the deadly minnie, while nobly doing his duty; and now himself, a little later, but not less certainly, falls a victim to those shafts of the enemy, received through so many days and nights of danger, hardship, heat, cold, and anxious watching.
He leaves a wife and child and many friends to mourn his early death, and to his surviving comrades the beautiful lesson, "Be a hero in the strife."
— The Macomb Journal; Thursday, May 13, 1875, p. 3.
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Charles, Elizabeth and their daughter were counted in Lenox Township, Warren County, in the census of 1870.
Family Members
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Elizabeth B. Pennington Marrs
1835–1935
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Jane Catherine Pennington Jones
1838–1911
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Mary Cordelia Pennington Beghtol
1840–1920
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Richard Warren Pennington
1844–1862
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Sarilda Agnes Pennington Wetzel
1846–1925
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Elnora Francis Pennington
1852–1852
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Alice Louise Pennington Herndon
1853–1926
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John Alfred Pennington
1856–1856
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Ellie Margaret Pennington Woolley
1858–1940
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Edward E Pennington
1860–1930
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