Husband: Mathias [Matthew] TENNISON
Birthdate: circa 1790
Birthplace: SC
Death date: circa 1850
Place of death: Benton County, AL.
Father: TENNISON, Zachariah
Mother: COOK, unknown (?)

Marriage date: circa 1828
Marriage place: GA.

Wife: Sarah McDANIEL (Susan)
Birthdate: circa 1805
Birthplace: GA.
Death date: Aft. 1880
Place of death: Cleburne County, AL.
Father: McDANIEL, Archibald
Mother: PINSON, Ruth Editha (Edee)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: TENNISON, (son)
Birthdate: 1825, Gwinnett County, GA.
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date: Bef. 1840, GA.

Child No. 2: TENNISON, Presley Rias (Reverand)
Birthdate: Oct 23, 1828, GA.
Spouses' names: McDANIEL, Nancy C.
Marriage date: Nov 27, 1845, Benton County, AL.
Death date: Nov 15, 1903, Cullman, AL.

Child No. 3: TENNISON, Elizabeth
Birthdate: circa 1831, GA.
Spouses' names: WEBB, James
Marriage date: Jan 29, 1850
Death date:

Child No. 4: TENNISON, William James
Birthdate: Mar 25, 1835, Godsen, Benton, AL.
Spouses' names: BURCH, Eliza Ann
Marriage date: Apr 05, 1854, Calhoun County, AL.
Death date: Sep 06, 1879, Gainesville, Cook County, TX.

Child No. 5: TENNISON, Lydia L.
Birthdate: 1836, Benton County, AL.
Spouses' names: TURNER, Littleberry
Marriage date: Nov 21, 1852, Calhoun County, AL.
Death date: May 31, 1911, Heflin, Cleburne County, AL

Child No. 6: TENNISON, Cook M.
Birthdate: Dec 17, 1838, Benton County, AL.
Spouses' names: TURNER, Sarah Malinda
Marriage date: Nov 08, 1857, Benton County, AL.
Death date:

Child No. 7: TENNISON, Rachel
Birthdate: circa 1839, Benton County, AL.
Spouses' names: HORTON, Fletcher
Marriage date: Jan 11, 1853
Death date:

Child No. 8: TENNISON, Robert C.
Birthdate: circa 1840, Benton County, AL.
Spouses' names:
Marriage date:
Death date:

Child No. 9: TURNER, Sythia
Birthdate: circa 1845, Benton County, AL.
Spouses' names: THROWER, John Thomas
Marriage date: Jul 26, 1863
Death date:
 
 
Documentation:
* 1830 Gwinnett County, Census,
* 1850 Census Benton Co., Alabama, 28th District, G.C. Ellis, enumerator, October 29, 1850.
* 1860 Calhoun County, Alabama, 1870 AL, Cleburne County Census,
* 1880 Cleburne County, AL,
* Land Records, Carroll County Land Lottery,

Notes:
* Benton County was changed to Calhoun county in 1858. Later Cleburne Co., was formed in 1866 from Calhoun, Randolph and Talladega Counties.
* The family may not have even moved to be in Benton co., in 1850, Calhoun in 1860 and Cleburne in 1870.
* According to the Cleburne Co., Heritage Book, Sarah ELLIS was the mother of Sitha/Sithy TENNISON, who married John Thrower. Which lends credence to the fact that Sarah/Susan remarried to Benjamin Ellis in 1858. It also states that Sitha's father was Mathias Tennison.

Thanks to my "cousins" Julie and Earlene for the sources and the notes on the TENNISON's.
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