U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tenney, James (d. 1841) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 583 JAMES TENNEY, the paternal ancestor of the large and numerous family of that name in Upshur county. Was a native of Massachusetts, and lived at Cold Rain, in that state at the time he immigrated to West Virginia. Little is known of his ancestors or his life prior to his coming to Buckhannon Settlement, except that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and was drawing a pension for his services in the war of Independence up till his death, December 30, l841. Some dispute exists as to the time of his emigration to the Middle Fork river. His daughter, Avis Tenney, afterward the wife of Nicholas Ours, born in 1803, claims that she was three years old when her parents moved here, which would make the date of their immigration 1806. James Tenney, Sr.'s, wife was Thankless Shippy, of Rhode Island, who was 93 years, 10 months and 20 days old at the time of her death. Their children were: James Tenney, who married Abigail Packard, of New York; Samuel, Josiah, Peter, Elisha, John, Philo, Reuben, died young; Clara, Mary, wife of Joseph Rowan; Avis, wife of Nicholas Ours, Sr., who died March 22, 1875, being 72 years, 2 months and 17 days old, and whose husband died April 15, 1874, age 87 years and 8 months, and Thankful, wife of John Rowan. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------