Papers contains reminiscences (6 pages) signed H.C. Penniman titled “Cholera in St. Louis Years 1849, 50, 51,” which describe the cholera epidemic and the great fire of St. Louis in 1849 (see transcript of these reminiscences below). Papers also contain letter signed Geo. Wallace Penniman [George Wallace Penniman], Southbridge, Mass., to Harry C. Penniman, Dallas, Texas, July 12, 1898, regarding the descendants of Harry C. Penniman’s grandfather Amasa Penniman; undated membership application to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution filled out by Mrs. Clara M. Penniman (wife of Harry Penniman) of Dallas, Texas, in which she traces her ancestry to Revolutionary War soldier George Goodhue; undated membership application to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution filled out by Mrs. Edith Marian Cleary (wife of William Thomas Cleary and daughter of Harry Penniman, Jr., and Edith M. Price Penniman) of Dallas, Texas; and four blank Daughters of the American Revolution forms.