6/5/2014
Thinking of our recent
loss of mom's cousin, Martha Fenn, I phoned her brother, Bob, and we talked for
an hour or so about our families. She was called Tibb and she had first
married Jack Cook, which is why he is buried by her parents. Jack's
brother had a pharmacy in Millbrook, Gaddis Cook pharmacy on main
street. Tibb's second husband was a McClain but I don't think she ever had
any children.
Bob was born in 1930 and
said his daddy, Frank, had a step sister and a step mother. I told
him that his sister was the first born child of that family and his daddy was
the second. I do not understand why his daddy referred to Carolyn as
anything other than his sister. Then he said Frank called Earl, his half
brother. What a mixed up family. Was their grandmother messing
around?
Frank owned 50 acres off
airport road, donated an acre to the church for a cemetery then his own family
is buried behind that fence. A big piece of the farm was sold to the new
school and Bob got rid of the rest, 3 houses in the back so that he could build
a place up on Lake Jordan. Bob has sons John, Lee, Robert, and Mark Allen
is a pastor in NC. So when I told him that his great grandpa was a John who
served in the civil war, he was amazed.
We talked about his
grandpa Frank Fenn being buried by his brother Madison, with son Emmett at his
foot, at Greenwood but he only went to NY to retrieve Emmett's body and then
Bob's daddy did the burial. So, Bob had never heard of Preston Orr, who
owned the entire 4 grave plot of the Fenns. I can only suppose that the
stepmother knew him or was kin to him.
Bob told me the Carter
families were from Opelika, that I could look up a guy named A Z Carter, who had
no name....then one named Rome or from Rome who was an engineer, and Bob used a
Doctor Carter himself when young. He said on tv that the Andy Carter running for
senate was part of that family and knew him from the Air
Force.