With Their Own Blood: A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers

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NOTES Abbreviations AHF: Arizona Historical Foundation, Hayden Library, Arirona State University, Tempe AHSL: Arizona Historical Society Library, Tucson ASLA: Arizona State Library & Archives, Phoenix MLP: Marshall Lee Pennington, Lubbock, Texas VCR: Virginia Culin Roberts 1: Captured 1. Except as otherwise noted, the events and details related in this chapter are taken from the three most authoritative sources: (1) [Georgie Scott Forbes], "Mamma's Capture by Indians in the Spring of 1860," handwritten MS [ca. 1900], Forbes Collection, Box 3, AHSL; (2) "Mrs. Page's Personal Narrative, Tubac [Ariwna], April 9, 1860," St. Louis Missouri Republican, May 8,1860, as quoted in Constance Wynn Altshuler, Latestfrom Arizona! The Hesperian Letters, 1859-1861 (Tucson: Ariwna Pioneers' Historical Society, 1969), pp. 64-67; (3) Robert H. Forbes, The Penningtons, Pioneers of Early Arizona ([Tucson]: Ariwna Archaeological and Historical Society, 1919), pp. 12-21. 2. Tucson Weekly Arizonian, 3 November 1859. 3. William Hudson Kirkland, "An account of the captives [sic] by Apache Indians of Mrs. John Page, nee Larcena Pennington, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Pennington, and incidents connected therewith," MS, 3 September 1909, Ben and Fern Allen Collection, AHSL; New York Times, 12 April 1860,5:2. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid.; Forbes, The Penningtons, p. 12. 6. Ibid. The stagecoach driver mistakenly delivered the child to Mrs. Eliza 221 With Their Own Blood Heath, supervisor of the Canoa way station. The "station lady" assumed it was her personal obligation to take charge of the little girl and staunchly refused to turn her over to Larcena. Hard feelings arose between the two women, Kirkland said, until he arrived a few days later and settled the issue. 7. [Georgie Scott Forbes], "Mamma's Capture"; "Mrs. Page's Personal Narrative ," Altshuler, Latest from Arizona!, p. 65. 8. Daily Alta Californian, 6 April 1860. 9. Kirkland, "An Account ofthe captives," MS 3 September 1909. Randall- "one ofour best men," according to Phocion Way-worked at the Salero Mine in the summer of 1858, but left on 12 August to harvest crops at a ranch in which he was a partner with Kirkland. William A. Duffen, ed., "Overland Via 'Jackass Mail' in 1858, The Diary of Phocion R. Way" (Part IV), Arizona and the West, 2 (Winter 1960): 361. Larcena Page, interviewed by Thompson Turner in April 1860, is quoted as saying that William Randall was engaged in the lumber business with her husband: "Mrs. Page's Personal Narrative," Altshuler, Latest from Arizona!, p. 64. 10. For an authoritative description ofTonto Apaches in this time period, see E. R. Hagemann, ed., "Surgeon Smart and the Indians: An 1866 Apache Word List," Journal ofArizona History, 11 (Summer 1970): 135-36. II. Kirkland MS, 3 September 1909. 12. Ibid; New York Times, 12 April 1860, 5:2. 13. "Mrs. Page's Personal Narrative," Altshuler, Latest From Arizona!, pp. 64-67. Obviously the party climbed high enough to find snow, but Larcena later said that the Indians kept mainly to the foothills. 14. [Georgie Scott Forbes], "Mama's Capture." IS. Alphonse Lazard vs United States and the Apache Indians: Indian Depredations Claim No. 8773, Testimony of Larcena A. Scott, taken at Tucson, Arirona , 20 September 1910, typescript of testimony in Forbes Collection, Box 3, AHSL. 16. [Georgie Scott Forbes], "Mama's Capture." 17. Ibid. 2: The Penningtons 1. Marriages and births recorded in the John Parker Pennington, II, Family Bible (original in Marshall L. Pennington Collection, Lubbock, Texas), as quoted by Marshall L. Pennington to VCR, Lubbock, Texas, 28 February 1981; Census ofthe United States, 1860, Arizona Territory, NewMexico, p. 35, photocopy of original returns, AHSL. 2. Elias G. Pennington was born in South Carolina 16 April 1809; Julia Ann Hood, his wife, was born in North Carolina 12 February 1815. John Parker Pennington, II, Family Bible. 3. U.S. Census 1850, Fannin County, Texas, Washington: u.S. National Archives , (microfilm 910, no. 5809 pt. 3), p. 167; John Parker Pennington, II, Family Bible. 222 Notes to Pages 4-14 4. Amanda Jane [Pennington] Crumpton to Robert H. Forbes, Santa Cruz, California, 18 May 1916, Interview notes in Forbes Collection, Box 3, Folder 3, AHSL. 5. Letter from J. Ross Browne, Tubac [Arizona], 5 February 1864, San Francisco Bulletin, 15 March 1864. 6. Forbes, Amanda Jane Crumpton Interview. 7. Browne, 5 February 1864. S. H[enry] F[rank] Pennington to Mrs. Florence E. Drachman, Chicago, 22 June 1939, Forbes Collection, Box 3, AHSL. This interesting legend...