Name: Tener, Nellie Jane (Hunt)
Burial Date: 1908, 08/14
Age at Death: 24
Plot Location: 277 G
Notes: 1st wife of Homer W
Homer W. Tener 1878-1942 is buried in Caney, KS

Nellie Jane Hunt Tener, the deceased, was born March 23, 1881, in Ohio County, Indiana. Her parents were Amaziah Bailey and Harriet Lucy (Hullcraft) Hunt.
While she was yet a child her parents moved and brought her to Kansas making their home in and around Sterling, Kansas. In this vicinity she meet the love of her life Homer Tener. Homer, who today mourns her as the life and hope of his home and they married on the 14th of November, 1900. Here the young couple began the larger interests of their life, and for three years they were farmers. Then they came to the Kansas towns of Sterling, then to Newton, and again to Sterling and finally Lyons in May 1908. During all this migrating life with its inconveniences and privations and sacrifices, she was the same devoted, patient, cheerful wife, mother and neighbor, meeting her responsibilities with a trusting heart and carefully managing her household. She was unpretentious and retiring, but quick to enjoy and appreciate, and was always ready for her part of whatever was to be done. She was a member of the Friends Church and maintained a consistent relation with the church of her choice.
She was the mother of three children, two little girls, who are both of them too young to know the extent and all meaning of their loss, and a baby boy, for whose life she gave up her own.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Sadie May Hunt, 1900. Survivors include her husband, Homer; two daughters, May and Mildred Tener and son, Samuel Amaziah Tener; parents Harriet and Amaziah B. Hunt; three brothers, Charles Augustus, Edward Stanley and Washington Perry Hunt, all of Sterling, Kansas.
Numerous relatives remain to mourn her loss. She died in Lyons, Wednesday evening, August 13, 1908. Graveside services were held at the Sterling Cemetery with services conducted by Dr. James C. Hall, Pastor of the M.E. Church at Lyons, Rice County, Kansas.