Genealogy of the Tennant family; their ancestors and descendants through many generations . .The heads of the families, with few exceptions, have been mem-bers of Christian Churches of Protestant faith. A few have ad-hered to the Roman Catholic Church. During the period of the war of the Rebellion, these descen-dants, then li\ing, although divided politically, vere strong sup-porters of the government and were anti-sla\ery in their few elisted in the war on the Union side of that great con-flict. All things considered, morality, religion, patriotism, socialstanding and influence, the
Genealogy of the Tennant family; their ancestors and descendants through many generations . .The heads of the families, with few exceptions, have been mem-bers of Christian Churches of Protestant faith. A few have ad-hered to the Roman Catholic Church. During the period of the war of the Rebellion, these descen-dants, then li\ing, although divided politically, vere strong sup-porters of the government and were anti-sla\ery in their few elisted in the war on the Union side of that great con-flict. All things considered, morality, religion, patriotism, socialstanding and influence, these descendants have reason to beproud of each other and not ashamed to o\ their relationshipand their family origin. The descendants of Fsther Tennant and David Hollenbecknumber as follows; Children 5 Crandchildren . .. 25 (ireat grandchildren 27 (ireat-great-grandchildren 6 Total 63 With ])arents and grand-parents, they include six generations. PART FOURTH FIRST DIVISION AUTO-BIOGRAPHIES MISS ELLEN POTTERALBERT M. TENNANT SECOND DIVISION MEMORIAL TRIBUTES TO DEPARTED RELATIVES T PU. MISS HELEN L. POTTER Born December 6, 1837A Distinguished Elocutionist PARI I\. DUISIOX I^IRST. A LIl^i: OF HRLRX POTTl^R ^3 Herself. 11 L. Potter was raised on a farm in Central Xew \ork* * and grew in health and vigor hy out-of-door life hel])nig herfather in \arious kinds of farm work. At this period onlv lim-ited adxantages for education were availahle rural schools were not graded; there were no High Schools, noexaminations, no promotions, ddie solitary teacher of a coun-try school taught all grades, {now called Primar\- and Gram-mer grades), fn one and the same room, from the alphahet to Al-gehra. Physiology, etc., if called for, and the teacher competent. At the age of four years Helen learned the alphabet by look-ing on while her older sister was being taught. At fi\e she andher sister were sent to school a mile from home. At sixteen shebegan teaching at a weekly
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