Hannah Boone Pennington

Hannah Boone Pennington, born 24 August 1746, was the sister of Daniel Boone and the wife of Revolutionary War soldier Richard Pennington, who served at Enoch Osborne’s Fort in Virginia. She first married John Stewart in 1765 in North Carolina and had four daughters, Sarah, Mary, Rachael, and Elizabeth. In 1777 in North Carolina, John Mulkey married Hannah and Richard Pennington. Their children were Joshua, Daniel Boone, John Stewart, and Abigail. After leaving Wilkes County, North Carolina, the family came in 1798 from Fayette Co., Kentucky, to Mill Creek, where they joined their friends John and Phillip Mulkey at Old Mulkey Meetinghouse and worshipped there. Hannah Boone Pennington died near here on 9 April 1828.

Kentucky · United States