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WILLIAM H. PENN, one of the old settlers of Ballard County, was born February 10, 1810, in Patrick County, Va., and is the second of eight children (five boys) born to Abraham and Sally (Crite) Penn, natives of Patrick County, Va.—the father of Irish and Dutch descent and the mother of Dutch descent. Abraham Penn was a captain in the war of 1812, and was the son of Thomas Penn, a Revolutionary soldier and farmer. Sally (Crite) Penn’s father, Hamon Crite, was also a farmer. The Penns are descendants of William Penn, who settled Pennsylvania. William H. Penn came with his parents to Todd County, Ky., in 1820, where his father purchased 150 acres of land, improved it and resided on it till his death, about 1847. William H. moved to where he now lives in 1852 on 400 acres, of which he has cleared 230 acres. He owned about fifteen negroes before the war, and lost five good mules during the conflict. He was married March 15, 1831, to Miss Mary A. Pollock, of Todd County, Ky., and daughter of George and Nancy (Goren) Pollock, natives of Montgomery, Tenn., and Warren County, Ky., and of English descent. Nine children were the result of this marriage: William H., Henry (now dead), George T. (deceased), Levi M. (died in the army), Alfred D. (deceased), Shradrach, Jaquillon, Thelbert (deceased), and Mary A. (deceased). Mr. Penn had two sons in the Confederate Army. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He cast his first presidential vote for Gen. Jackson.