[4737] [S147] DE Archives Bible Records File Folders
[15626] [S147] DE Archives Bible Records File Folders
_William PENINGTON proven son of Wm_+ | (1717 - ....) _Robert of Wm. PENINGTON not proven link to this Wm_| | (1750 - 1800) | | |_Sarah THARP _______________________ | _Samuel PENINGTON Odessa, DE proven link to Robert_| | (1770 - 1823) | | | _John BIDDLE JR (first cousins)_____+ | | | (1717 - 1760) m 1737 | |_Mary BIDDLE _______________________________________| | (1751 - 1805) | | |_Rachel PENINGTON __________________+ | (1720 - 1784) m 1737 | |--Margaret B PENINGTON | (1799 - 1874) | _John MELDRUM ______________________ | | (.... - 1749) | _Robert MELDRUM ____________________________________| | | (1736 - 1793) | | | |____________________________________ | | |_Rebecca MELDRUM __________________________________| (1779 - 1802) | | ____________________________________ | | |_Sarah _____________________________________________| (1738 - 1795) | |____________________________________
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Margaret was 3 when her mother died. She was 18 when Capt Samuel was born, 22 when her step mother died, 24 when her father died.
She married her first husband at age 20 and he died three years later. She married her second husband William Polk in 1825 three years after her first husband death at age 26.
There are some interesting battles in the Orphans Court with a Eliza S Penington vs Margaret B Cochran over the inheritance of her father's estate.
Middletown Transcript states she died on Tuesday, 12th, at the residence of her son-in-law, Charles Beaston, Esq., Odessa. age 77.
[1085] [S6] Middletown Transcript
[1086] [S173] History of the King Family in Flanders & America 1300's - 1980
[1082] [S16] DE Archives Death Card file
[1083] [S60] Tombstone Old Drawyers Cemetery Odessa, DE
[15335] [S65] DE Archives Marriage Card file
[15346] [S65] DE Archives Marriage Card file
[2856] [S23] Delaware Historical Society Library Wilm, DE Card file
[15533] [S23] Delaware Historical Society Library Wilm, DE Card file
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