Grandpa Cecil Earl Fenn Carter
1900-1939
 
Parents Anna Lou Stone 1875-1934
  William Franklin Fenn  1855-1922
 
Anna's parents were Augustus Marvin Stone and Mary Ann Hendrick
 
William's parents were Emeline Harrell and John Fenn of Tuskegee but they had been born in Georgia.
 
Cecil's siblings were Frank Jr., Carrie, Emmett Marvin, Robert Lee, and Arthur Lee Fenn.
 
Cecil joined the Army at a young age and stayed for many years in Texas at Fort Bliss but went back to see his family about 1931 and married Alice Emma McClain.  They had 3  children, Cecil Jr., Annie Lee, Wm Lawrence Carter by 1935 when Alice died and then her husband died in 1939 so the children went to the McClain grandparents.  These children never knew much about the Fenn families and when little Annie grew up, she changed her name to Anne Alice Carter.
 
Frank Fenn Jr said that Carrie/ Carolyn was only his half sister and that Cecil Earl was only his half brother.............maybe they just did not get along or maybe there could be some truth to it.   Their mother left them after being married for ten years, having six children and went to Macon Georgia to join her parents, where she soon married a Mr. Carter - no marriage record found yet - but apparently her new husband died young and then she married a Mr. Dasher who also died young - she was found with her mother on the census in 1920 as the widow Mrs. Dasher.  Grandma  Dasher signed her mother's death certificate.
 
Frank Fenn Jr. resided in Coosada and his daughter Martha lives in Millbrook,  whom we have met, and know her brother Bob Fenn.
 
Martha told us about grandpa Wm F. Fenn being buried at Greenwood by his brother Madison, with Emmett buried at the foot of his father.
 
I ordered William's death certificate to get the names of his parents and followed up with census records from Notasulga and Tuskegee. William did have a brother Madison, and Thomas and a sister Ida.
 
Then followed his father John Fenn to parents Elijah Fann and Martha Rich in Georgia.  John's sister married Thomas Rich......and filed an application to join the Rolls of Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma.
 
Cecil told people that he was Cherokee.   Apparently he was.
 
The mother of Martha Rich is only known as Abiah.