Descendants of Captain Arthur Fenner
Christopher Crandall Fenner
[b 14 Nov. 1801 at Brookfield, Madison Co., NY; d 12 July 1850 at South Stockton, Chautauqua Co., NY] Christopher Crandall Fenner m Lucinda Fross [b 9 Jan. 1807 at Litchfield, NY; d 8 Sept. 1894 at San Leandro, CA], daughter of Rufus Fross and Polly Rose Candier, in 1826 in Chautauqua Co., NY.
Christopher C. Fenner was born in Brookfield, Madison County, in 1801, and came to this county with Newell Putnam when sixteen years of age. Two years later the family came and took up a tract of land lying on Cassadaga creek. He united in marriage with Lucinda Fross in 1826, and conducted his farm until his death in 1850. Of nine children born to Christopher C. Fenner, eight are yet living [in 1891]. Both he and his wife were hard-working and frugal in their habits and living, and possessed the highest sense of honor. No debt that they ever contracted remained unsettled, and this motto, “pay everything you owe,” was so firmly impressed on the minds of their children that the lesson was never forgotten. Hard work and privations caused the health of the father to fail before he reached that age when man should be his best, and this coupled with the large family of children and unfortunate financial ventures kept the family for many years on the verge of destitution.
—Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York (1891), p. 390.
In 1880, Lucinda was living with her son Rufus and his family in Chautauqua, NY.
Franklin W. [b 13 Feb. 1827 at Centralia, Chautauqua, NY; d 1 Jan. 1914 at Collins, Erie, NY] m Mandana D. Smith [b 25 Dec. 1833 at Cayuga Co., NY; d 2 Aug. 1904]. They had Albert [b 1862; d before 1875].
Elizabeth M. [b 19 July 1828 at Stockton, Chautauqua, NY; d 14 Dec. 1906 at San Leandro, Alameda, CA] m George Smith [b 5 Apr. 1822; d 14 Nov. 1914] on 24 July 1850.
Rufus Waterman [b 23 Mar. 1830 at Stockton, Chautauqua, NY; d 2 Nov. 1909 at Chautauqua Co., NY] m Andalucia L. Penoyer.
Pardon Crandall [b Dec. 1831 at Stockton, Chautauqua, NY; d 8 July 1909 at Yolo Co., CA] m Henrietta Dunnigan [1844–1934] ca. 1869.
Christiana O. [b 29 Sept. 1833 at Stockton, Chautauqua, NY; d 28 Jan. 1918 at San Francisco, CA] m Alonzo Putnam [b 29 Apr. 1832 in NY; d 5 May 1888 in San Francisco, CA] on 29 Sept. 1853. They had Forest [b 20 June 1860 in NY], who m Lelia Cotton, and Victor [b 9 Feb. 1872 in NY; d 3 Nov. 1938 in San Francisco], who m Emily D. McCoy.
Wallace F. [b 16 June 1835 at Stockton, Chautauqua, NY; d 31 Aug. 1892 at Fredonia, Chautauqua, NY] m Mary L. Titus.
Milton Marion [b 28 July 1837 at South Stockton, Chautauqua, NY; d 14 Mar. 1905 at Fredonia, Chautauqua, NY].
Saladin E. [b 1844 in Chautauqua, NY; d 1861 in Chautauqua, NY].
Rosette Jane [b 1847 in NY] m William H. Gray on 1 Sept. 1868 at Alameda Co., CA; they had Margarite Gray [b July 1879 in CA] who m Clarence Leo Best on 11 Dec. 1900 at Alameda Co., CA.