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     Sarah T. Penley was born on 14 April 1830.¹

     Sarah, married Gustavus Clark Pratt, son of William Pratt Jr. and Zilpha Bryant, circa 1852.¹

     Sarah died at age 78, on 23 August 1908,¹ and was buried at Riverside Cemetery, South Paris, Oxford, Maine.²

     Lucy Pennel was also known as Lucy Cross.¹

     Lucy and Moses Cross filed a marriage intention on 25 September 1841 at Sebec, Piscataquis, Maine.^2,3

     Lucy, married Moses Cross on 19 December 1841 at Sebec, Piscataquis, Maine.⁴

     David Morrow Penney, son of Hugh Penney and Marcia Ella Burrill, was born. The baby was David Morrow Penney, lived only three days so died in the
hospital. Mom always said he was a blue baby. Today they would have given him a transfusion I think. He was born in January 1934 or 1935.¹

     David died on 24 January 1932,² and was buried at Brookside Cemetery, Dedham, Hancock, Maine.³

     Ella Mae Penney, daughter of Hugh Penney and Marcia Ella Burrill, was born in 1928 at Massachusetts.¹

     Hugh Penney, son of Robert Penney and Jane Morrow, was born on 11 October 1888 at Belfast, Ireland.²

     Hugh Penney immigrated in 1910.³

     Due to a need for men to serve during World War I, the United States instituted a draft. The first registration was for men between the ages of 21 and 31. As a result, this first registration included men born between June 5, 1886 and June 5, 1896. As World War I continued to escalate, the United States instituted a second draft registration. The second registration was for men who had turned 21 since June 5, 1917, so it added men born between June 5, 1896 and June 5, 1897. Two months later, a supplemental registration was held on August 24, 1918 for men who had become 21 years of age since June 5, 1918, adding the names of men who were born between June 5, 1897 and August 24, 1897. With no end in sight for World War I, the United States instituted it's third and final registration. It included all men who were between the ages of 18 and 21, and 31 to 45 years of age. This added younger men than the previous registrations, those who were born between September 12, 1897 and September 12, 1900; and added an older group of men, born between September 12, 1873 and September 12, 1888. Hugh filled out a draft card for World War I on 4 June 1917 (at age 28), while living at Holden, Penobscot, Maine. He was employed as a clergyman and described as height, medium and medium build with light blue eyes and dark brown hair.⁴

     Hugh, at age 29, son of Robert Penney and Jane Morrow, married Marcia Ella Burrill at age 23, daughter of Hadley Proctor Burrill and Ella F. Lovejoy, on 5 June 1918 at Dedham, Hancock, Maine,

DEDHAM

A wedding of much interest to the many friends of the bride and groom took place Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock In the Congregational church, when Miss Marcia Ella Burrlll of Dedham was united in marriage to Rev. Hugh Penney, pastor of the Holden and Dedham churches. At the strains of the bridal chorus from Lohengrin, played by Mrs. Ethel Fogg Stone, the bride entered the church on the arm of her brother Harold S. Burrlll, who gave her in marriage, and was met at the altar by the groom, where the ceremony was impressively performed by Dr, David N. Beach of Bangor, using the double ring service. The bride was attended by Miss Hazel Cowing, a cousin, and the groom by Jessie Donahue, a fellow student. Little Josephine Burrlll, a niece of the bride, was flower girl and Dean Clifford Burrlll. a nephew, waa ring bearer. The bride was very becomingly gowned in white crepe meteor with veil caught with lilies of the valley and carried whits bridal roses. The bridesmaid wore a dress of light biue silk poplin with white hat and carried pink carnations. The ushers were Albert Phillips, Albert Kettel and Maurlce Miller. The church was filled with guests from the two parishes and neighboring towns and was most beautifully decorated in green and white, being done by friends of the bride, Hazel Cowing, Jessie Gray, Ethel McLaughlin, Eulalia Greenlaw, Helen Black, Lizzie Burrlll and Agnes Grlndle. The bridal arch from which three white bells wre suspended, with its solid background of fir was most artistic. Following the ceremony a reception waa held at ths home of the brides mother, Mrs. Hadley P. Burrlll. In the receiving line beside the bridal couple were Mrs. H. P. Burrlll, Mrs. Robert Penney and Miss Alexandria Penney, mother and sister of the groom, Miss Hazel Cowiing and Jesse Donahue. About 230 friends were present to extend felicitations to the newly married couple. In the parlors the color scheme was in white and green. In the dining room pink and green. The gifts included many valuable and useful articles, a buffet in fumed oak from the Burrlll relatives, a silver service from Mr. Penney's brothers and sisters, a clock from his father and mother, a dozen teaspoons and a half dozen forks in solid sliver from the Holden parish, a purse of money from the East Holden society, a nice lamp from Dedham church friends and silver, cut glass, linen, china and money from other relatives and friends. Mrs. Penney was a graduate from th East Maine Conference Seminary lin 1916, and has been a successful teacher in her home town. She is a trained singer and is often in demand as a soloist at social and church gatherings, where her voice la always heard with pleasure. Mr. Penney, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Penney of Montreal, is a senior at the Bangor Theological Seminary, and is serving his second year as pastor of the Holden and Dedham Congregational churches where he Is very popular and successful in his chosen profession. Mr. and Mrs. Penney left at six oclock by automobile on their wedding trip, and after their return will reside at the parsonage la Holden, where they will be at home to their friends after June 20.⁵

     Hugh Penney was ordained on 12 June 1919 at Holden, Penobscot, Maine; The reference provided the following information. Hugh attended the Bangor Theological Seminary for the years 1916 through 1919.⁶

     The U.S. officially entered World War II on 8 December 1941 following an attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Just about a year before that, in October 1940, President Roosevelt had signed into law the first peacetime selective service draft in U.S. history, due to rising world conflicts. After the U.S. entered WWII a new selective service act required that all men between ages 18 and 65 register for the draft. Between November 1940 and October 1946, over 10 million American men were registered. The Fourth Registration, often referred to as the "old man's registration", was conducted on 27 April 1942 and registered men who born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897 - men who were between 45 and 64 years old - and who were not already in the military. Hugh filled out a draft card for World War II on 26 April 1942 (at age 53), while living at 17 Belmont Street, Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Unknown GEDCOM info: 26 APR 1942 Hugh was the Reverend at the Eliot Union Church, Lowell, Massachusetts.⁷

     Hugh died on 3 January 1975, at Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, at age 86.⁸