Tench Cemetery

Located off the North side of the road, Gordon Road, about 1 mile E from the White Oak ARP Church cemetery lies the old Tench family home cemetery. The land is privately owned and fenced.  

The cemetery lies beneath a canopy of trees back from the old house's location. The cemetery is surrounded by a stone wall about 3 feet high. This is without a doubt the most peaceful and beautiful cemetery this author has seen.

The home has long been removed. My mother remembers some 70 years ago visiting the old cemetery with her father, William Fredrick Creagh Linch. At this time the old home was in ruin.

William Eugene Vincent Row ( the son of Eugene Row and Martha Grace Linch, a daughter of Martha Elvira Tench Linch ) removed the usable lumber and stone from the house to build another house at another location.

This is the final resting-place of John Henry Tench and his wife Martha Eleanor Gray Tench. Martha's will states she "wishes to be buried in plain pine coffin and clothes that she commonly wore to church and wishes "to be laid between my Jimmie and his father". Also laid to rest there are Rubin Montmorenci Tench ( Sergeant in the Confederate Army ), James Andrew Tench a Confederate soldier in the Newnan Georgia Guard ("A" Co. GA 1st Volunteers ) and was killed in action in Monterey, Virginia on June 26, 1961. His grave is marked with a Veteran's Monument), Jane Russell ( 16 years old ), Mary F Russell ( 2 years old ) and an unmarked grave.