Cecil Carter and
his father's death certificates
Cecil Earl Fenn Carter
married Alice Emma McClain, the great granddaughter of Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman. Alice was born in Montgomery and
Cecil was born to Anna Stone and William Franklin Fenn in
Thompson Station, Bullock County Alabama.
Cecil's death
certificate
indicates his parents and Annie Stone and Wm Franklin Fenn.....then I ordered William's
death
certificate to
find his parents were John F. Fenn and Emeline Harrell of Georgia but they migrated to Tuskegee in Macon County Alabama while
John served in the Civil war. This of course
led to to John's parents in Georgia, Martha Rich and Elijah Fann born 1778.
Cecil's parents were found together on
one
census but after 6 kids in ten years, she left and went back home to Macon Georgia. She is
found in 1920 as Annie Dasher living with her mother.
Cecil enlisted in the Army in
1919 and stayed at Fort Bliss Texas while his brother Frank Jr. enlisted in WWI,
and Robert and Emmett. Arthur died about this time but we find no record
of him, his wife nor his two children.
Alice was the daughter of Lorena Emma Bozeman and
Charles Allen McClain. Parents of Charles were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah
Marion McClain.
Parents of Lorena were Alice Lorena Stephens (
daughter of Joe ) and John Thomas Bozeman.
Ironically the parents of Elizabeth Broadway McClain
were Mary Susan Stephens and Abner Broadway.
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Apparently Emmett buried his
father and Cecil but Eva Dakota may have buried William and his brother Madison
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It is sad to see that Cecil
and Alice have no headstones. His was ordered from the VA and was
lost.
Alice McClain Carter had three children and died at the age
of 19 while her husband Cecil died only four years later; their
children were raised by her
McClain parents. Their
Uncle Emmitt Fenn stayed in touch with the
children and his estate was divided amongst them, which was not much at
all, but he loved them. A sister of Alice was Katy Bell and she
adored those babies and helped her parents raise them and sewed their
clothing. Katy never had any children of her own. They had another
sister named Jimmie Lee, who got pregnant by a neighbor named Hays,
so she named the baby Jimmy Lee Hayes. Suffering from Toxicemia
during the pregnancy, she died giving birth. Alice had another
sister named Mary who had crippling arthritis in her feet but also
a bad leg where she fell off a truck as a child and it ran over
her.
http://www.genealogy.com/users/f/a/m/Mclain-Family/
http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/a/r/Anne-A-Carter/
Not much is known about grandpa Cecil Earl Fenn Carter
except his military records show us that he served about 20 years in
the army but we have no clue if the children received any benefits after
his death. The papers
also indicate he had a very dark ruddy complexion, which we know he
was Indian. He drank too much alcohol and claimed his grandfather was an indian chief. Cecil fell dead on Columbus
Street. His death certificate reveled the names of his parents and then
I found his father's grave, W F Fenn.