Alameda-Contra Costa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Tennent, James Hugh June 30, 1948
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Oakland Tribune, July 1, 1948
Oakland Tribune
July 1, 1948 (Thursday)
Page 39, Column 6

“DEATHS. TENNENT – In Oakland, June 30, 1948, James Hugh Tennent, beloved 
husband of the late Louise D. Tennent; loving father of Mrs. Mary Tennent 
Carleton and Mrs. Margaret Tennent Boots; beloved son of the late Dr. Samuel J. 
Tennent and Rafaela Martinez Tennent; brother of Mrs. Anna T. Burns and the 
late Katherine T. Cousins, Dr. John B. Tennent and Augustine B. Tennent; 
grandfather of James Tennent Carleton, John Frederick Carleton and Marjorie A. 
Bolts.  A native of Pinole, Calif.; aged 91 years.  A member of Society of the 
California Pioneers.

Friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral Saturday July 3, 1948, 
at 9 o’clock a.m., from the Chapel of Albert Engel & Co., 1630 Telegraph Avenue 
and 39th Street; thence to the Church of St. Margaret Mary, at Emerson and 
Excelsior Avenue, where a requiem mass will be offered for the repose of his 
soul commencing at 9:30 o’clock a.m.  Recitation of the rosary Friday evening 
at 8 o’clock.  Interment, Catholic Cemetery, Martinez, Calif.” END [Similar 
death notice appears in issue of July 2.]

AND

Oakland Tribune
July 2, 1948 (Friday)
Page 16, Column 6

“Requiem Mass for Pioneer.

A requiem mass will be said tomorrow at St. Margaret Mary’s Catholic Church for 
James Hugh Tennent, 91, retired cotton rancher and pioneer resident of 
Metropolitan Oakland, who died Wednesday at a local rest home following an 
illness of four months.

Tennent was born December 11, 1856, at Pinole.  His father was Dr. Samuel 
Johnson Tennent, an English physician who came to California in 1848, after 
serving in the Hawaiian Islands as collector of the port and physician to the 
royal family.

Tennent’s mother was Rafaela Martinez Tennent whose ancestors had come to 
California from Spain with Anza, and who had settled on a land-grant rancho at 
Pinole.

It was at the Pinole ranch, where Dr. Tennent stopped to spend the night on his 
way to Sacramento to start a medical practice, that he met and later married 
the Spanish senorita.  He never reached Sacramento.

McCLURE GRADUATE

James Tennent was a graduate of the old McClure’s Military Academy here.  In 
1887 he married the late Louise Allen, a teacher at Lafayette School (now the 
Oakland High School).  She was the sister of Superior Judge John J. Allen of 
Oakland.

After their marriage, the Tennents lived on the Pinole ranch until 1898, when 
Tennent left for a three-year trip to Alaska [during the Klondike gold rush].

In 1905, following his return to California, Tennent developed a cotton ranch 
in the San Joaquin Valley [in Kings County], which he worked until 1928, when 
he moved to Oakland to live with his daughter, Mrs. Mary Tennent Carleton, 1047 
Underhills Road.

CALIFORNIA PIONEER

Besides Mrs. Carleton, Tennent leaves another daughter, Mrs. Margaret Tennent 
Botts, Corcoran, Calif., and three grandchildren, James Tennent Carleton, 
Pittsburgh, Pa.; John Frederick Carleton, Oakland, and Miss Marjorie A. Botts 
of Corcoran, a student at Stanford University.

He was the brother of Mrs. Anna T. Burns, 19 Edgecroft Road, Berkeley, and was 
a member of the Society of California Pioneers.

Following the mass at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at St. Margaret Mary’s Church, Emerson 
Street and Excelsior Avenue, burial will be held at St. Catherine’s Cemetery, 
Martinez.

Recitation of the Rosary will be held at 9:30 o’clock tonight at the Funeral 
Chapel of the Albert Engel and Company, 3630 Telegraph Avenue.” END

Additional Comments:
Note that there are two items above related to the life, death and funeral of 
Mr. Tennent.

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