Historical Marker
Samuel Fisher Tenney
Historical marker location:
E. Pease St., Crockett, Texas
( Glenwood Cemetery, East Pease Street in Crockett)
Marker installed: 1980
(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.