Olive Strong Tenney

18 Feb 1819 - 20 Jan 1881

Olive Strong Tenney (1819-1881) was born 18 Feb. 1819 in Wales, Niagara Co., New York. She was the daughter of Ezra Strong and Olive Lowell. She married Nathan Cram Tenney on 18 Mar. 1841 in Jo Daviess Co., Illinois, and they had ten children. She was mentioned in letters between Wilford Woodruff and Ammon Meshach Tenney on 24 Nov. 1879 and 5 Mar. 1887. She died 20 Jan. 1881 in St. Johns, Apache Co., Arizona Territory.

Olive Strong (KWJH-7LR), “Family Tree,” database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org, accessed 7 Nov. 2023). Olive Strong Tenney, <i>Wilford Woodruff Papers</i> (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/olive-strong-tenney, accessed 7 Nov. 2023). “Ezra Strong notebook, circa 1882-1884,” p. 7, image 12, 19/200, MS 4831; <i>Church History Library</i> (https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org, accessed 28 Nov. 2023). "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940," database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org, accessed 8 Nov. 2023); Nathan Tinney and Olive Strong, 18 Mar. 1841, Jo Daviess Co., Illinois, p. 19; citing Jo Daviess Co., Illinois, County Clerk, “Jo Daviess Co., IL births, 1877-1905; delayed births, ca. 1918-1986 [see note below]; marriages, 1830-1922; deaths, 1877-1930 : indexes to births, ca. 1877-1986; marriage index, ca. 1878-1988; death certificate index, 1916-1964,” microfilm 1602649. 1860 U.S. Census, Virgin City, Washington Co., Utah Territory, p. 141, Nathan C. Tenny; <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org, accessed 7 Nov. 2023). "New Mexico death certificates, 1927-1945," database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org, accessed 6 Nov. 2023); John Lowell Tenney, 5 May 1936, Fruitland, San Juan Co., New Mexico, certificate no. 2449; citing New Mexico, Department of Health, image 140/2543; DGS 4229754. The Deseret News, “Died” (Salt Lake City, Utah Territory), 23 Feb. 1881, vol. 30, no. 4, p. 16; database with images, <i>Utah Digital Newspapers</i> (https://digitalnewspapers.org, accessed 7 Nov. 2023).

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