The PENISTEN surname is in my maternal line.  Variations include PENNISTEN, PENISTON, etc.  The origins of the surname are unknown. Ahnen...

From Samuel Harden's "Those I Have Met, or Boys in Blue", Anderson, Indiana, 1888, page 173: George T. Pennisten was born De...

Sometimes the newspaper makes a mistake, other times perhaps the family is so distraught that incomplete information is given.   An examp...

Clara (PENISTEN) PIERCE (1869-1906), was my maternal 2nd-great grandmother.  The PENISTEN/PENNISTEN/PENISTON line has unknown origins, stret...

William Francis PIERCE (1865-1950) was my maternal 2nd-great grandfather.  The PIERCE family has English origins, with the immigrant ancesto...

  My maternal great-grandmother, Edna Muriel PIERCE, was born on this date in 1897 in Madison County, Indiana.  Edna was the daughter of Wil...

My maternal 2nd-great grandparents, William PIERCE and Clara PENNISTEN, were married on this date in 1892 in Madison County, Indiana.  Willi...

My maternal great-granduncle, John Herman PIERCE, married on this date in 1918 in Alexandria, Madison County, Indiana to Charlotte Elva HENS...

Edna Muriel "Peach" (PIERCE) WRIGHT was my maternal great-grandmother, the wife of Virgil Lee WRIGHT. So far, I have not been abl...

From my research at the Madison County, Indiana clerk's office, I was able to obtain a copy of the marriage license application for my m...

My maternal great-great grandparents, William Francis PIERCE and Clara PENNISTEN were married on January 14, 1892 in Madison County, Indian...

Yesterday I took a mental health day from work and did some genealogy research. I had planned a trip to the courthouse in Anderson for some...

My maternal great-great grandfather, William Francis Pierce and his second wife, Vida (Maddox) Pierce are buried in the Maplewood Cemetery,...

My maternal great-grandparents, Virgil Lee and Edna Muriel (Pierce) Wright are buried in the Park View Cemetery in Alexandria, Madison Coun...

This is a June 22, 1913 photograph of the graduating class of the Lafayette Township school in Madison Co., IN. My maternal great-grandmothe...

This undated photograph shows my maternal great-grandfather, Virgil Lee Wright with uncle Lawrence Spence. Lawrence was an uncle by marri...

This January 1947 photograph is of Jessie ( Pennisten ) Spence and husband Lawrence Spence, with great-grandnephew Charles High. On the bac...

This undated photograph is of my maternal great-grandmother, Edna Muriel "Peach" (Pierce) Wright (1897-1968). Edna was the daught...

The Lawrence SPENCE household appears in the 1930 census of Alexandria, Madison Co., IN. Lawrence was my maternal 2 nd -great granduncle, ...

The family of William Francis PIERCE appears in the 1900-1920 census of Madison Co., IN. William was my maternal 2 nd -great grandfather, t...