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Martha Day Fenner
Born: 1867
Died: 21 Jun 1915 Jackson, Madison Co., TN
Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Madison Co., TN Fenner Lot No. 233
FATHER
MOTHER
Virginia Haskins Day
HUSBAND
Skene
R. H. Cartmell Diary, vol. 33, page 80-81, June 21. 1915:
Mattie Fenner died this morning. a daughter of Dr. John S. Fenner and Geanie
Day. . . . She married when a girl about 18. a man named Skerre. They seperated
after a few days & maybe never met again. . . . She had talent, studied art in
New York at Cooper's Institute & in Paris. Prance. Her work in oil painting,
water colors & pen & ink sketches, show that had she elected to devote herself
to it, she sight have attained brilliant success. She published a small volume
of poems and stories. . . . The Fenners were pioneers of this county. The oldest
one settled at what was then called Madisonville, now Cotton Grove. He raised a
no. of boys & girls. . . . Robert Fenner who remained in Jackson & practiced
medicine during his life and died here after the close of the war. He was the
brainy one of the family. He married a daughter of Atlas-Jones, a pioneer of
Madison County, Tenn.
Source: My Riverside Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions Scrapbook Park II by
Jonathan K. T. Smith