According to Robert C. Carpenter’s Carpenters A Plenty (1982), p. 204, Fanny Carpenter McKee married Richard W. McKee on March 23, 1818. Fanny, (spelled Phanny in her father’s will) was the daughter of “Hairy” Peter Carpenter and Susanna Cox. She was born and raised in the Beaverdam Creek section of northern Gaston County. In the book, Carpenter speculated on the family as he was unable to locate Richard W. McKee in North Carolina census records. He suggests that Fanny Carpenter McKee died prior to 1841 since on April 15 Richard W. McKee married Mary Wilson in Carroll County, Georgia, where he resided in 1850. Carpenter found no death record, burial record, or disposition for Fanny Carpenter McKee. Only after Jason Harpe located her grave at Bethel Presbyterian Church in Clover, York County, South Carolina was he able to document her death on August 22, 1834, and to speculate that she and husband had resided in South Carolina after their marriage. The burial answers many questions about Fanny Carpenter McKee but does not resolve documentation of the names of her children.
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