Samuel Fisher Tenney

A marker in Glenwood Cemetery for Maria Green is dated May 21, 1912, and gives her age as about 80. Emma Tenney's history of Crockett's First Presbyterian Church calls her a noble woman, born in Roanoke, Virginia, who came to Texas with Mrs. Webb, wife of Dr. C. O. Webb. She attended church until she was bedridden, and her gifts to home and foreign missions often reached Rev. Tenney as a check of about ten dollars. She named him executor of her will, which left seven hundred dollars to Congo missions.

What the plaque says

Samuel Fisher Tenney (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

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Caddo Mounds State Historic Site — 26 mi
  Three earthen mounds of an ancestral Caddo village and ceremonial center on the old El Camino Real, settled about A.D. 800 and still sacred to Caddo people, with a grass house and visitor center.

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• Isaac Adair Daniel — steps away
• Glenwood Cemetery — steps away
• Armistead Albert Aldrich — steps away
• George G. Alford — steps away