John married Ila Elizabeth Crawley. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary for John P.Penney
From: Chattanooga Times(pg 23)
Sunday, January 28,1962

Penney - John P., 85, of Rt 1, Soddy, died in a Chattanooga hospitalearly Saturday morning. He was a retired coal miner. Survivors are foursons, Johnny, Wilson, and Dave Penney of Chicago, Illinois, and AaronPenney, Akron, Ohio; two daughters, Mrs. Inez Frawley, Soddy, Tennesseeand Mrs. Nannie Gann, Soddy, Tennessee; 18 grandchildren, 55great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren; several niecesand nephews. The body will remain at the funeral home. Funeral serviceswill be held Monday at 10 a.m. at the Soddy Church of God, the ReverendHoward Netherly and the Reverend Howard McGee officiating. Intermentwill be in Varner Cemetery. Grandsons will be active pallbearers.Arrangements are by Williamson-Garrison, Soddy.

John married Sarah Isabelle Yother on 3 Apr 1895 in Hamilton County, Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of Adam David Yother and Ellen Lucinda Shaver) was born on 8 May 1878 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee; died on 12 Oct 1942 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee; was buried on 14 Oct 1942 in Varner Cemetery, Soddy-Daisy, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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No records have ever been found to substantiate the parentage of MilesPenney. At this time it is thought that his father could be CaptainJames Penn(e)y and his second wife Polly Gann. (The reasoning for thisunproven information is that Miles Penney was living on land purchased byCaptain James Penny when he died in 1887. Capt. James bought this 150acres on Opossum Creek in 1834 from James Coszy.)
The first recorded record of Miles Pinkston Penney is found in theMeigs County, Tennessee Marriage Books. M. P. Penney to Mary Ann Bean,August 31, 1848. Filed August 26, 1848, Meigs Co., TN.
Mary Ann Bean died before 1852, cause unknown. Miles remarried August20, 1852 to Sarah (Sallie) Gann. They were married at her brother,Jefferson Gann's house.
Miles enlisted in the Union Army at Camp Stanley on September 12, 1864for one year in Co. F, 6th Tennessee Mounted Infantry. He was 5ft. 9in.tall, blue eyed with dark hair and complexion. The 6th Tennessee MountedInfantry Regiment, USA was totally organized on Oct. 24, 1864 inChattanooga. Commanding Officer for the District of Etowah was MajorGeneral James B. Steedman, with headquarters at Chattanooga. Theirassignment was to scout the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee and NorthGeorgia after numerous guerrilla bands that had infested the ares. Fieldofficers were: Lt. Colonel George A. Gowing, Major William H. Bean, andCaptain William Hughes for Company F.
The first official record of the regiment was dated November 30,1864. General Steedman and the major portion of his command waspreparing to join Major General George H. Thomas for the defense ofNashville against General Hood's invasion. At this time Lt. Col. Gowingwas ordered to send 130 men at daybreak to Cleveland, TN where they wereto report to Co. Boughton, commander of the post. On January 21, 1865,General Steedman reports from Chattanooga that he has sent the 6th southtoward Summerville, Georgia via LaFayette. On February 2, at Ringgold,Georgia Col. Gowin reported the previous night he had attacked theguerrilla leader, Gatewood, with 75 men in McLemore's Cove, killing 14and routing the remainder with the loss of most of their horses andarms. In April 1865, with 80 men, Major Bean was reported part of anexpedition to Dalton and Springs Place, Georgia, and to the CoosawattieRiver, lasting from April 1st until the 4th, in the course of which therewere several skirmishes with guerrillas.
The regiment was then placed under the command of Brigadier GeneralH.M. Judah, Commanding the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, with headquartersin Decatur, Georgia. About the last of March the regiment was assignedto scouting North Georgia until the surrender of the Confederate Army atGreensboro, North Carolina. They were then moved to Resaca, Georgiawhere the men were employed as couriers along the railroad to Atlanta. OnJune 18, 1865, the regiment was ordered to Nashville and was mustered outon June 30, 1865. MILES was discharged as a Corporal of Company F.
He fought in Northern Georgia and Reseca with 2nd Lt. Bird Thomas.Other family members at Reseca were: William I. Tomas, George WashingtonPenney, Andrew Jackson Penney, Isom Penney, Elisha Gann (first cousin ofhis wife Sallie), John Gann, James M. Gann, Andy Gann, Jarett Gann,Campbell A. Gann, Franklin Gann, Preston Gann, and a great many more.
Miles drowned on Christmas Day 1877 while crossing the Soddy Creek atClifts Mill Dam. The creek was up, and he lost control of the boat andwent over the dam. He is buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery on OldHixson Pike, Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee. His Military Marker reads:
M. P. Penney
Co. F. 6th. TN. MTD. INFTY.

Miles married Sarah Gann on 20 Aug 1852 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of Alfred Gann and Susanna) was born in in Hamilton County, Tennessee; died on 27 Jan 1910 in Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee; was buried in Soddy Presbyterian Cemetery, Soddy-Daisy, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From her Widow's Pension Application, Pension Certificate Number292,798, for Sarah (Sallie) Penney: 19 August 1890. Her statement isthat she was married to Miles P. Penney on 20 August 1852 by Daniel S.Jones at "My Sister's" (?) Jeffeson Gann's Home. Another statement byElisha Gann (Sallie's first cousin), age 63, states that he waspersonally present when the rites of matrimony were solemnized betweenthem and an eyewitness to the ceremony. He was chosen and acted in thecapacity of one of the waiters of the occasion, and that they weremarried at Jefferson Gann's. Other statements by A. H. Levi and JacobBarnes, who were 55 and 75 years of age, state that Sallie has no meansof support through he daily labor, and that her husband Miles P. Penneywas no doubt accidentally drowned on 25 December 1877 while crossingClifts Mill Dam in a boat. Later statements in this file by John JosephPenney youngest son of Miles and Sallie Penney attests to the death ofhis mother on 27 January, 1910. Sallie also states that her husband's(MILES) first wife is dead.
Sallie died on 27 January 1910 and should be buried next to Miles atthe Presbyterian Cemetery, Soddy, Hamilton County, Tennessee, but thereis no marker. Evan Penney says that she is buried on the right ofChristopher Columbus Penney, again there is no marker.
Sallie's brother Russell Gann was married to Caroline M. Becknell, afull blooded Cherokee.

Adam married Ellen Lucinda Shaver. Ellen (daughter of John Shaver and Mary A.) was born in in Virginia; died on 29 May 1938 in Rock Island, Le Flore County, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]