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Elmer E. Penney-left photo Samuel Penney-right photo Son’s of , Henry Edward Penney & Mary Jeanette Stowe Penney |
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Men on Horse Back L-R, Elmer E. Penney, John Stowe Bottom photo, Katherine Register Penney, wife of, Elmer E. Penney |
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Mary Jeanette Stowe Penney Complied by, Noma Jane Penney Olafson
Mary Jeanette Stowe Penney was living in Utah when Henry was a law man in Bibee, AZ.. She loaded the children into a covered wagon and traveled with the Indians to AZ. They called her “Little Sister”. Just outside of Bisbee, she met Henry and a posse on their way out of town. A rancher & his family in the area had been massacred by Indians and they where going to find them. She told him that she had brought their family this far and he could just get off his horse and take them on into their new home, which he did. Not one of the men in the posse returned alive. They where killed by the Indians. My great uncle, Elmer E. Penney, told this story and said it was not the first time she had saved his life in some way. Another story he told me was that his dad, Henry Edward Penney, use to be a drinking man and when he got drunk he would slap Mary around. He come home one night and passed out in bed. Mary sewed him in the sheets of the bed and took a cast Iron skillet to him and from that day on he never raised a hand to her again. |
