Details for Samuel Fisher Tenney
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5225007602
Data
| Marker Number | 7602 |
| Atlas Number | 5225007602 |
| Marker Title | Samuel Fisher Tenney |
| Index Entry | Tenney, Samuel Fisher |
| Address | E. Pease St. |
| City | Crockett |
| County | Houston |
| UTM Zone | 15 |
| UTM Easting | 265845 |
| UTM Northing | 3467860 |
| Subject Codes | Presbyterian denomination |
| Marker Year | 1980 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Glenwood Cemetery, East Pease Street in Crockett |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | grave marker |
| Marker Text | (March 26, 1840 -- July 2, 1926) Civil War veteran Samuel Fisher Tenney, a Georgia native, graduated from the University of Georgia and from a South Carolina seminary in 1868. He moved to Crockett two years later, following a pastorate in Marshall, Texas. For 54 years Tenney served here as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Instrumental in the development of area educational facilities for blacks, he also started a mission in 1880 for the Alabama-Coushatta Indians in Polk County. Recorded - 1980 |