PENNEY, Charles 1833-1899

PENNEY, GARLAND, WALLACE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/20/2012 at 19:52:57

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Charles Penney was born March 20, 1833, the son of William and Elizabeth Garland Penney.

In 1855 Charles visited Iowa and selected 1000 acres of rich farming land on the banks of the Little Cedar near Stacyville, Iowa and entered it at the land office then located in Dubuque. In the spring of 1856 the rest of the family came to Iowa. Railroads were not yet built in this section, so they moved their families and household effects in wagons. On the way out of Moscow, Wisconsin, James, second son of Charles, was born June 4, 1856. On June twentieth the family landed at their destination. For seven weeks they lived in their covered wagons, so busy were they in breaking ground for the next year's crop. On June 23, three days after their arrival, they held their first religious service from their covered wagon on the river road south of Stacyville.

Charles married Mary Wallace October 7, 1853, in Kenosha. Charles died September 30, 1899 in Stacyville.

Their children were: Elbridge, born in Kenosha; James born in Moscow, Wisconsin on the way to Iowa, June 4, 1856; Edwin born April 17, 1859; Elizabeth born December 18, 1862; Ella Bertie born August 21, 1865 married Charles French, died 1955; Charles born October 7, 1871; Emma Born June 6, 1873, died September 9, 1903; George born April 26, 1868, died May 10, 1868.

Charles is buried in Stacyville Cemetery, Stacyville, Iowa.

[Adapted from the William Penney story in MITCHELL COUNTY HISTORY, 1989, by Francis Morse]

(Credit: S. Bell)

NOTE: His wife, Mary, died in 1919.
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Photo of Charles, from STANDARD HISTORICAL ATLAS OF MITCHELL COUNTY, IOWA, 1911.

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