Tebo Baptist Church and Cemetery
Leesville, Missouri, Henry County
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| This is the new Tebo Church and
Cemetery located about a mile
north of Leesville, Mo. In the
foreground is the small stone of
James T. Denny [blue flower]. On
the right is the stone of his first
wife, Caroline Briggs [married
July 26, 1840] and on the left his
second wife, Mary Ann Bailey
[married May 11, 1859]. He had a
total of 16 children.
James Died in 1873
Click on picture for larger view. |
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Below is a before and after view of the stone of Mary Ann Bailey, wife of James Denny.
When we photograph tomb stones, we use chalk to make everything stand out for the
picture. On the left is how it looked before and on the right is how it looked after chalking.
The first rain washes it all off and it's back to it's old appearance again. Note that they
didn't even bother to put her name on the stone. We know who it is because of the dates
and whose wife it was. It was Laura's great grandmother, Mary Ann Bailey Denny. When
she married James, she was barely older than some of his children. [Sorry, no larger view.]
This is Laura standing by the grave of
her great grandmother, Mary Ann
Bailey Denny, at New Tebo Cemetery,
Leesville, MO., in 1986. |
This is Laura placing flowers on the
grave of her great grandfather, James
T. Denny at New Tebo Cemetery,
Leesville, MO., in 1986. |
| This is Mary Ann Bailey taken in 1860, not
long after her marriage to James Denny.
James already had 10 children with his
first wife, Carolyn Briggs and then had six
more with Mary Ann.
Mary Ann had been married twice before
her marriage to James Denny, first to a
man named Reynolds in 1855. He died in
1858 and she married a man named
Sullivan, probably the same year. Six
months after she married Sullivan, he was
killed in a sawmill accident, where he
worked. Then on May 11, 1859, she
married James Denny.
I suppose her legal name was actually
Mary Ann Sullivan at the time she married
James Denny.
She was born July 12, 1838 in another
country [probably England] and came to
America at age five, with her mother and
two siblings. A brother, age three, fell
overboard and his body was never
recovered, on the trip to America.
She died May 12, 1889 and was buried at
the old Tebo Church Cemetery, near
Leesville, Missouri. Her grave was later
moved to the new Tebo Cemetery, where it
remains. |
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