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May Lennington

18 Monday May 2020

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On May 18, 1863, Thomas S. Lennington and Anna R. Pierson welcomed their only daughter, May,  into this world in Licking County, Ohio.  Thomas supported the family as a farmer and served in the Civil War during 1864.

May married Marvin Custer, a nephew of General George Custer, on August 29, 1881 in Licking County.  They immediately started a family with their son George Armstrong Custer being born in 1882 in Iowa.  The small family returned to Ohio where they added a daughter Marie in 1885.

May’s father passed away in 1888, and her mother moved in with Marvin and May.  Anna resided with them until her death in 1912.  Marvin supported the family as a railroad engineer, having worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty-seven years at the time of his retirement.  Just shy of his sixtieth birthday, Marvin was suddenly stricken with a heart attack and died at his home on September 8, 1915.

Both of their children, George and Marie, married and had families.  Marie’s life was cut short at the age of thirty-five due to pregnancy complications.  May carried on, eventually living with George and his family.  She died at home on February 11, 1933 at the age of sixty-nine.

 

May Lennington was my 4th cousin, 5x removed on my dad’s side.

REFERENCES

  • United States Census, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1930
  • Ohio County Marriages
  • Find a Grave website
  • The Newark (OH) Advocate, Feburary 13, 1933, via Newspapers.com
  • Ohio Deaths
  • Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, September 9, 1915, via Newspapers.com
  • United States Civil War Draft Registration Records

 

William H Lennington

18 Saturday Apr 2020

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William Lennington pictureWilliam H Lennington was born on April 17, 1825 in Madison, New Jersey to James Lennington and Sarah Bonnell.  He had at least three siblings–twin brothers Thomas and Nathaniel and a sister Martha.  In the mid-1830s the family began their journey westward and settled in Ohio.

At the age of 26, William married Julia Condit on 28 April 1851.  He supported his family as a merchant.  Their first two children, John and Helen, were both born in Ohio.  After Helen’s birth in 1856, William moved his family across Indiana to settle in Champaign, Illinois, where their son Grant was born in late 1857.  In 1859, Julia, along with several others in the area, were stricken ill and died.

William Lennington

Living in a rural settlement, William took to farming to support his two living children.  He married a second time in 1861 to Lucinda French Pearson.  Over the next decade, William and Lucinda added four sons to their family–Wade, James, Charles and Allan.  William continued to support his family as a farmer throughout the years.  As he grew older, his focus shifted to one of real estate and leasing property to others.

Shortly after the beginning of the 20th Century, Lucinda passed away at approximately 70 years of age.  William continued on another decade or so, passing to the afterlife on January 17, 1913.

 

William Lennington is my 3rd cousin 6x removed on my father’s side.

 

REFERENCES:

  • United States Census – 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910
  • Illinois, Compiled Marriages
  • North America, Family Histories 1500-2000