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E. K. P. Tennery passed from this life on June 13, 1920. He was born in Giles County, Tenn., on April 21, 1840. In response to the call for volunteers he enlisted in the Confederate army and served throughout the war as a member of Company C, 3d Tennessee Infantry, under Capt. Dave Rhea. He endured many hardships of that bloody conflict and was taken prisoner, being in the surrender of Fort Donelson and was again captured at Chickamauga. Both times he was taken to that dreadful Northern prison Camp Douglas, near Chicago, where thousands of our gallant soldiers lost their lives through hunger, cruelty, and exposure to the extreme Northern climate. He was in Camp Douglas at the close of the war and from there made his way home on foot.

Shortly after the war he was married to Miss Mary Isabella Childers, of Pulaski, Tenn., and with his young wife removed to West Tennessee, settling in Madison County near Medina, which had since been his home. He united with the Antioch Baptist Church of that community, of which ha had been a consistent member. He was a loved and honored citizen, esteemed by all who knew him, and his loss is deeply felt by many friends and relatives. His wife and eight daughters survive him.