Capt. James H. Pennell and Sarah A. Miller
Husband Capt. James H. Pennell 1
Born: - Philadelphia, PA Christened: Died: Bef 1919 - Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA Buried: - Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PAMarriage:
Wife Sarah A. Miller 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried: - Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA
Father: Martin Miller ( - ) 1 Mother: [Unk] Rohrer ( - ) 1
Children
1 M William Walter Pennell 1 2
Born: - Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA Christened: Died: 21 Jan 1907 - Titusville, Crawford Co, PA 2 Buried:Spouse: Nancy A. "Nannie" Burchfield ( -1938) 1 2 3 Marr: Neilltown, Forest Co, PA
2 F Laura Pennell 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: J. Hamilton Bowman (1838- ) 1 4 Marr: 8 Dec 1868 4
3 M James Pennell 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Ada Bowman ( - ) 1
4 F Eliza B. Pennell 1
Born: 1855 - Johnstown, Cambria Co, PA Christened: Died: 1944 Buried: - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PASpouse: Lyman D. Rhoades (1846-1933) 5
5 F Mattie Pennell 1
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1919 Buried:Spouse: John Pickett ( -Bef 1919) 1
6 M Martin Pennell 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
7 F Bessie H. Pennell 1
Born: Abt 1859 Christened: Died: Bef 1919 Buried:Spouse: Unknown ( - ) Marr: (Divorced on 27 May 1889)Spouse: Dr. W. A. Nason (Abt 1862- ) Marr: 25 Sep 1889 - Pleasantville, Oil Creek Twp, Venango Co, PA 6
8 M Leonard Pennell 1
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Wilhelm ( - ) 1
General Notes: Husband - Capt. James H. Pennell
He was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and was engaged in the foundry business there and afterward moved to Pleasantville, where he was a justice of the peace for many years.
After settling in northwestern Pennsylvania he followed the oil business, merchandising and other activities. He was a Democrat and took an active part in politics, held membership in the Presbyterian Church, and was a well known man of his day. His death occurred at the age of seventy-two years in Pleasantville, Venango County, where he and his wife are buried.
His wife wife was a member of the Bickham family. [Possibly he was married more than once?]
1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 830.
2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 174.
3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 117.
4 Editor, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 947.
5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 829.
6
Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #1116.
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