Peter Tennant Cemetery, Jakes Run, Monongalia Co., WV
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Submitted Jan 30, 2005 by Bonnie Wilson <barn@westco.net>
<http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm>
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This cemetery is just off Rt. 27 at Jakes Run.  From the intersection
of Rt. 29 and Rt. 27, at Jakes Run, go .6 mile on Rt. 27, and turn
right up a dirt road. Go .2 mile and make another right. The cemetery
is .1 mile on the right side of the road, about 20 feet from the road.
It can be seen easily.

Ponzoo, Ben -  no dates
Tennant, Peter - Memory of Peter Tennant who departed January 29, 1847
		 "Remember man as you pass by, As you are now, So once
                  was I;
		  As I am now, so you must be, Prepare for death and
                  follow me."
		  Footstone:  Son of Liberty, Peter Tennant, was born
                  February 25, AD 1773
		  On the South Branch of the Potomac River in Hardy Co.
                  Virginia
Tennant, Elizabeth Brown - w/o Peter Tennant,  September, 1774 ~ June 2,
                           1867
			   On each side of Elizabeth, is a stone for her
                           husband, Peter.  
	                   The second stone reads:
                           Tennant, Peter - born February 25, 1773, On
                           the south branch of the Potomac River in Hardy
                           Co, Va. died January 29, 1847,  aged 73 year,
                           11 month and 1 day "Remember man as you pass
                           by..........."
Tennant, Nimrod -  August 30, 1802 ~ February 28, 1875
		   "We mourn for thee, but not hopeless, Though deaths
                    dark river thou hast crossed,
		    Faith to our hearts whispers sweetly, That thou are
                    only gone, not lost."
Tennant, Catherine - w/o Nimrod Tennant, daughter of Jacob J. Moore,
                     married to Nimrod Tennant
		     January 16, 1823 and departed this life September 22
                     AD 1828,  aged 23y and 25d
		     "Emblem of joy, she's gone, And joined her friends
                     below"	
Tennant, Emella -  born February 29, 1812, married July 25, 1830, deceased
                   August 19, 1881
		   "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course,
                   I have kept the faith"
Tennant, Naomi -  June 7, 1831 ~ January 21, 1895
Tennant, Malinda -  July 26, 1839 ~ May 29, 1914
		    "Lovely flowers raise my thoughts, From earth to that
                     bright shore,
		     Where loved ones will welcome me, And we will part no
                     more"
Tennant, Elizabeth -  October 3, 1842 ~ June 1, 1914
		      "Earth's beauties you may enjoy, And delight in them
                      find,
		      O, the bliss of the sweet thought, What Heaven will
                      be to the blind"

NOTE:	Ben Ponzoo was Peter Tennant's slave.  According to "Memories" by
        Ross Tennant, Ben died
	about 1885.  His wife, Milly, is said to lie in the grave next to
        him.
	Peter Tennant was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Haught Tennant.
        His wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Adam Brown.
	Nimrod Tennant was the son of Peter and Elizabeth Brown Tennant.
        His first wife was Catherine,
	daughter of Jacob J. and Anna Barbara Haught Moore.  She died in
        childbirth.  His second wife was Emella, daughter of George P. and
        Rebecca Wilson.  Naomi, Malinda and Elizabeth, were daughters of
        Nimrod and Emella.  All three girls were blind.  
	There are more graves in this cemetery with no markers. Nimrod and
        Emella had three children,
	Mary, Peter and Benjamin, who all died within a few days of each
        other in 1856 of scarlet fever. They are probably here, also.