Mary Hester Harding Hickey Penn
1844 Birth Lafayette County, MS (Yancey-Harding Homestead near present day Taylor, MS)
Daughter of Lewis G Harding b abt 1812 Stafford County, VA d 11/1876 Taylor Lafayette County MS and Elizabeth Jane Yancey b 1820 Granville, NC and d 1858 Taylor Lafayette County, MS (Both are buried in the Harding Family Cemetery located on the old homestead near present day Taylor, MS. Graves are unmarked.

9/4/1860 Married T.J. Hickey (initials not clear on marriage documents) Lafayette County, MS. Marriage certificate indicates that the union took place near present day Taylor Lafayette County MS.
1867 – 1871 Mary married a Hopkins between these years?
1870 Census Joshua Penn and first wife Mary Elizabeth Penn are living in Elkridge Howard County MD. Mary Elizabeth dies abt 1870.
11/26/1872 date of Howard County MD marriage license for Joshua H Penn and Mary D.H. Hopkins (she is listed as a widower). They are married at the bride's residence.
Almyra Jane Penn, first child born from the union of Mary Hester and Joshua, is born in Baltimore MD in 1873.
1880 Census – Joshua and Mary Hester Penn are living in Benton Piedmont Wayne County MO.
Mary Hester's children:
Thomas Hickey b 1861 MS
William P Hickey b 1865 VA
Charles Hickey b 1867 VA
There is no 1890 census and after exhaustive research cannot trace the whereabouts of Thomas, William P or Charles Hickey.
Two of Joshua's Penn's children are listed on the 1850 census and do not migrate to MO.
William T Penn b 1833 d 1842
Joseph B Penn - b 1835 d 1862 (C.S.A. 17th Regiment, VA Infantry. Killed at Battle of Williamsburg
Mary Hester's Step children (birth dates approximated based on age in 1860, 1870 & 1880 census's/Children of Joshua and Mary Elizabeth) (all children were born in Elkridge Howard County MD):
Mary Margaret Penn b abt 1842 D (went to MO) 2 years older than Mary Hester and a spinster
James W Penn b abt 1844 MD (did not go to MO)
Eliza A Penn b abt 1846 MD (did not go to MO)
Milton C Penn b abt 1848 MD (went to MO)
Enoch E Penn b abt 1851 MD (do not know if he stayed in MD or not)
Sara E Penn b abt 1852 MD (did not go to MO)
Joshua H Penn b abt 1854 (did not go to MO)
Caleb M Penn b abt 1857 (went to MO)
Lincoln Elsworth Penn b 9/3/1861 MD d 10/3/1917 Piedmont Wayne County MO

Mary Hester and Joshua's children (all except for Almyra are born in Benton Piedmont Wayne County MO):

Almyra Jane Penn Waites 9/7/1872 Baltimore City MD d 4/8/1957 Piedmont Wayne County MO (age 84)
Laura Penn Jones b 4/11/1876 d 2/19/1946 Piedmont Wayne County MO (age 69)
Luke Franklin "Frank" Penn b 11/23/1878 d 1/26/1945 Piedmont Wayne County MO (age 66)
David McHenry "D.M." Penn b 9/8/1881 d 2/11/1958 Poplar Bluff Butler County MO (age 76)
Nevada Mae Penn Durham b 9/25/1883 d 2/2/1967 Piedmont Wayne County MO (age 83)
Donzella "Donny" "Dannie" "Donnie" Penn Webster Fuller b 5/26/1886 D 3/30/1955 Little Rock AR (buried in the Piedmont MO Masonic Cemetery) (age 69)