James Cash Penney, Sr. (1841 - 1895)

James Cash Penney was born December 29, 1841, in Mirabile, Missouri. His parents were Eli Penney (1799–1871) and Mary G. “Polly” Burris (1821–18??), both from Mercer County, Kentucky. He had twelve children with Mary Frances Paxton Penney. Penney was an unsalaried Baptist minister who ran a farm near Hamilton, Missouri. He died March 22, 1895, and is buried in Highland Cemetery, Hamilton, Missouri.
[Source: Descendents of John Penney at http://www.rootsweb.com/~deschart/z0000380.html]