Leila DEANE
Ida H. PENNINGTON poison candy case
[3993]
> My wife and I were talking about your email and we both thought that
> the daughters of the murdered sisters ended up with the Peningtons. The
> 1900 Delaware Census proves this. Both Mary Elizabeth Dunning and Leila
> Dean are with John B. and Rebecca Penington in Dover. Joshua Deane is
> also with the family and is listed as partner? to Penington. Deane was a
> tobacco dealer. Mary E Dunning is listed Penington's granddaughter. Now
> the really interesting thing about this is that John P. Dunning's sister
> Mary A. is also with the family listed as a boarder age 22 born 1877. It
> has all of them being born in Delaware. It also says that Mary A's
> father was born in Delaware, whereas the 1920 PA Census of Philadelphia
> says that her father was born in Maryland. Maryland is probably
> correct. Mary and John's father, Daniel Lambden Dunning was involved in
> churches, schools, banks and was listed somewhere as postmaster in
> Middletown. It seems his son strayed far from home. He also seems to
> have been an acquaintance of Samuel Penington. The Penington name was
> very prominent in lower New Castle county at the time.
I have attached a note about the information I found on Mary A
> Dunning in Philadelphia and will also attache a .tif file of the 1900
> DE Census that has the Peningtons in another email. The .tif file is
> large so let me know if you cannot receive or read it. I'd be happy to
> send you a copy.
> One other interesting note about John P. Dunning is that he had an
> uncle named John who served for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He
> eventually was involved in several business ventures and ended up as an
> insurance salesman in Sussex County Delaware. He was mentioned in the
> papers during the time that John P came back to Delaware after his wife
> died. It seems that at one point John P was also suspected in the murder
> of his wife and sister-in-law.
>
> Hope this helps. I'll keep scrounging. I'm sure there is more to be
> found.
>
> Doug
> 1920 PA Census
> Taken 1/30/20
> Philadelphia County, Philadelphia
> Supervisor Ditrict#1, ED #1792, Ward 47, Sheet 9B, Looks like Girard Avenue
> Father born in Maryland, mother born in Delaware
> Mary A Dunning age 42 born in Delaware
> Lodger with Anna Burrman or Bussman
> Occupation was clerk
> Insurance firm?
[3994] [S6] Middletown Transcript
[15555] [S65] DE Archives Marriage Card file
[2068] From Poland
[2069] [S83] Personal notes Vincent Minner
_Obediah VOSHELL Hazlettville______________
| (1844 - 1887)
_Harry VOSHELL ____________|
| (1870 - 1956) m 1898 |
| |_Anna CLOUDWRIGHT widow of Obabiah Voshell_
| (1849 - ....)
_Warren VOSHELL _____|
| (1896 - ....) |
| | ___________________________________________
| | |
| |_Martena M (Louie) MORRIS _|
| (1873 - 1963) m 1898 |
| |___________________________________________
|
|
|--Maude VOSHELL
|
| ___________________________________________
| |
| ___________________________|
| | |
| | |___________________________________________
| |
|_Jeanette SMITH _____|
(1897 - 1919) |
| ___________________________________________
| |
|___________________________|
|
|___________________________________________
[13209] [S9] Tombstone Forest Cemetery, Middletown DE
[13210] Voshell plot in back left of drive sm stone at base of large center monument
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