AMERICAN CITIZEN [CANTON, MS], August 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
List of Deaths in Hospitals
at Canton, for two weeks, ending July 31, 1862:
. . . July 17—J. T. Penny, Co. I, 3d Texas Regiment.
This is the url to the American Citizen, just copy and paste. paper is from 1861 to 1865
http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/american_citizen.htm
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AMERICAN CITIZEN [CANTON, MS], November 30, 1861, p. 1, c. 1
Death of a Soldier.—Mr. George Simmons, a member of one of the Texas companies that passed through this place for Virginia some weeks ago, died at the Clark House, in Canton, on Thursday evening, 28th inst., at 7 o'clock.
We learn that from exposure to the weather, on his way hither, the deceased took Pneumonia, which gradually assumed the form of Consumption, of which he died.
He was decently interred in our Cemetery on Friday.
Deceased was about 33 years old, and we learn has a mother residing in Warren county, Mo.