Ancestry of
John McCain

U.S. Senator from Arizona

Richard Fenner Jr.

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of John McCain — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 42 
  • Father:
  • Richard Fenner 
  • Mother:
  • Anne Coddington   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Bern, Craven, North Carolina 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 May 1828 
  • Death Location:
  • Madison County, Tennessee 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cotton Grove Plantation, Madison County, Tennessee 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ann McKinnie Geddy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Jan 1788 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Halifax, Halifax Co., North Carolina 
  • Child:

  Eliza Geddy Fenner (Ahnentafel No:21 )

  • Notes: 

  • Dr. Richard Fenner served in Col. Martin's 2nd North Carolina Regiment and spent time as a prisoner of war in Charleston, North Carolina.

    He was one of the founders of the Society of Cincinatti whose first president was George Washington.

• Sources for Richard Fenner Jr.

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A039024.
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, 2008, Vol. 9.4, pp. 45-46.
  • ³ Powell, William S., ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 2, D-G, Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press (1986), 186-187, 290.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 924.
  • ⁵ Seebold, Herman de Bachellé, M.D., Old Louisiana Plantation Homes and Family Trees, New Orleans: Pelican Press, Inc. (1941), Vol. 1, pp. 356-357.