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Tench Carson
Sammons b June 10, 1845, Greenville Dist, South Carolina
Elvira
DeShazo b November 3, 1846, AL
Tench Carson
Sammons
was a Presbyterian
minister. Graduated Larissa College, TX, run by Cumberland Presbyterians
which later combined with two other colleges to form Trinity University.
He believed in evolution. He helped to found Presbyterian, Baptist,
Lutheran, and Methodist Churches in McGregor area. Elvira DeShazo's
family were staunch supporters of the Southern cause in the War
Between the States. She lost four brothers in the war.
Tench served
with Ben Sawyer's Company- "Jabe Curry Rifles" (Co K,
24th AL Infantry)
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Information from Hope Pees ([email protected]):
Tench Carson
Sammons, son of John Reed Sammens (Sammons) and Narcissa Norris
Killough Sammens, was born in Greenville District, South Carolina
on June 10, 1845. The family moved to Cherokee County, Texas in
1850 and to Alabama when the Civil War began. He fought with Company
K, 24th AL regiment of Volunteers in the Confederate Army and
suffered a Minnie ball wound in the knee which left him with a
life-long limp. Tench Carson Sammons learned the trade of cabinet
maker from his father, John Reed Sammens, before taking up the
trade of pattern-maker at the iron works in Shelby County, Alabama.
In 1870, he returned to Texas and entered the Presbyterian ministry
of the Cumberland Presbyterians. He was a devout student, learning
both Hebrew and Aramaic. He was ordained in 1874.
In the 1880's
he moved his family to McGregor where he was the minister of McGregor
Cumberland Presbyterian Church from 1885 to July 1891, and later
engaged in evangelistic work while having charge of the churches
at Crawford and Tonk Creek. He was clerk of the Trinity and Brazos
Presbyteries for a total of fifteen years. He also served two
terms as engrossing clerk of the State Synod. In addition to preaching,
he was a carpenter and in his spare time did engraving, fitted
glasses, repaired watches and made all the pulpits in town.
In an effort
to prove that the Brazos River was navigable, he and two other
residents of the county successfully navigated the Brazos River
from Waco to the Gulf of Mexico in an eighteen foot motor boat
which he built himself in November of 1908. He built a boat every
winter, fished from it all summer and then gave it to whoever
owned the pond he had fished in that summer.
In 1868 (or 1867)
he married Elvira DeShazo; they had two daughters, Corrie Augusta
Sammons and Lilly Ella Sammons. Sammons was a member of the McGregor
Masonic Lodge and the Knights of Pythias. He was a 33rd degree
Mason.
Elvira DeShazo, age 15 |
Tench Carson Sammons |
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