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Some Descendants of Alexander Henry

Sixth Generation

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196. Martha Lightfoot Dandridge 1 (Martha Henry Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born in 1821 in Henry Co., VA. She died on 3 Jun 1850.

Martha married Richard Bolton 1 in 1811/1846. Richard was born in 1785/1820. He died in 1811/1900.

They had the following children:

  386 M i William Bolton 1.

197. Henry Bolling Dandridge 1 (Martha Henry Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born in 1823 in Henry Co., VA. He died after 1885.

[Broderbund WFT Vol. 11, Ed. 1, Tree #0089, Date of Import: Mar 26, 1998]

After he died sometime around 1885-86, Adeline and Lightie returned to Sardis, Miss. to live with her sister Kate Jenkins. Nannie was placed in a Catholic orpahage and Henry Jr. lived with different relatives.

Henry married (1) Caroline Wylie 1.

They had the following children:

  387 F i Mary Jane Dandridge 1 was born about 1829 in VA.
  388 F ii Zelia Dandridge 1 was born about 1832 in VA.
        Zelia married E. H. Lewis 1.
  389 F iii Matilda Dandridge 1 was born about 1834 in VA.
  390 F iv Elizabeth Dandridge 1 was born about 1836 in VA.
        Elizabeth married William P. Ome 1 on 13 Feb 1862 in Pontotoc Co., MS.
  391 F v Martha Dandridge 1 was born about 1838 in VA.
  392 M vi Bolling Dandridge 1 was born about 1839 in VA.

Henry married (2) Adeline Kenon Wilbourn 1 in May 1860. The marriage ended in divorce.Adeline was born in 1818/1843. She died in 1865/1931.

They had the following children:

  393 F vii Lightfoot Dandridge was born in 1844/1872. She died in 1849/1954.
  394 F viii Nannie Dandridge was born in 1844/1872. She died in 1849/1954.
  395 M ix Henry Bolling Dandridge Jr. was born in 1844/1872. He died in 1850/1951.
+ 396 F x Lightfoot Dandridge was born on 17 Apr 1874. She died on 13 Dec 1928.

198. Nathaniel West Dandridge III 1 (Martha Henry Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born in 1824 in Henry Co., VA.

Nathaniel married Harriett A. Wylie 1 in 1815/1860. Harriett was born about 1828. She died in 1815/1910.

They had the following children:

  397 F i Mary Dandridge 1 was born about 1849 in MS.
  398 M ii William B. Dandridge 1 was born about 1853 in MS.

201. Rev. William Spotswood Fontaine 1 (William Winston Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born on 7 Nov 1810 in Yellow House, Hanover Co., VA. He died in 1882.

William married Sarah Shelton Aylett daughter of Col. Philip Aylett and Elizabeth Henry in 1832. Sarah was born in 1811. She died on 5 Mar 1875 in Reidsville, NC.

They had the following children:

+ 399 M i Col. William Winston Fontaine is printed as #225.
  400 M ii Alexander Spotswood Fontaine is printed as #226.
  401 M iii Charles de la Boulay Fontaine is printed as #227.
  402 F iv Marian Dandridge Fontaine is printed as #228.
+ 403 M v Rev. Patrick Henry Fontaine is printed as #229.
  404 M vi Philip Aylett Fontaine is printed as #230.
+ 405 F vii Sarah Spotswood Fontaine is printed as #231.

202. Patrick Henry Fontaine 1 (William Winston Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born on 18 May 1813 in Martinsville, VA. He died on 3 Nov 1845 in Martinsville, VA.

Patrick married 2 Sarah Miller Cole 1 on 25 Sep 1832 in Henry Co., VA. Sarah was born on 14 Feb 1815 in Martinsville, VA. She died on 2 Mar 1892 in Martinsville, VA.

They had the following children:

  406 M i Watson Hale Fontaine 1 died in Civil War. Watson served in the military Cpl., Co. H, 24th VA infantry.
  407 M ii Nathaniel Cole Fontaine 1.

Confederate Soldier. Noted for capturing a whole squad of Union soldiers single-handed, by some ruse of quick-witted action, without sustaining a wound.
+ 408 F iii Katherine Fontaine.
  409 F iv Unity Fontaine 1.
        Unity married Edward Estes 1.
+ 410 M v Lt. Samuel Cole Fontaine was born on 1 May 1835. He died on 3 Jun 1891.

203. Sarah Ann Fontaine 1 (William Winston Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born on 5 Nov 1815 in VA. She died on 9 Feb 1909.

Sarah married Edmund Burwell Redd 1 son of Maj. John Redd and Mary Carr Waller in 1815/1867. Edmund was born on 24 Jun 1808 in VA. He died in 1850.

They had the following children:

+ 411 F i Mary Dandridge Redd was born about 11 Jan 1835. She died on 10 Sep 1888.
+ 412 M ii James S. Redd.
+ 413 F iii Celeste Tunstall Redd.
+ 414 M iv William Spotswood Redd.

204. Mary Fontaine (John James Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ).

Mary married James Edward Waller.

They had the following children:

+ 415 M i John Fontaine Waller.

205. Madison Redd Fontaine (John James Fontaine , Martha Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born in 1824. He died in 1891.

Madison married Elizabeth Gillespie in 1870. Elizabeth was born in 1836.

They had the following children:

  416 F i Martha Redd Fontaine was born in Pontotoc Co., MS.

DAR # 18969
        Martha married Robert Willis Flournoy.
  417 F ii Elizabeth Fontaine was born in Pontotoc Co., MS.

DAR # 94454
        Elizabeth married Walter C. Harris.

216. Patrick Henry Aylett (Philip Aylett , Elizabeth Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born in 1812/1841. He died on 27 Apr 1870 in Richmond, VA.

Patrick married Emily Coles Rutherford in 1832/1866. Emily was born in 1811/1846. She died in 1832/1927.

They had the following children:

  418 F i Sallie Bennett Aylett was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA.

222. William Roane Aylett (Philip Aylett , Elizabeth Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born in 1833. He died in 1878/1925.

William married Alice R. Brockenbrough on 3 Jul 1860. Alice was born in 1823/1849 in Prob Richmond Co., VA. She died in 1878/1937.

They had the following children:

  419 F i Sarah Aylett was born in 1861. She died in 1862/1955.
  420 F ii Pattie Waller Aylett was born in 1862. She died in 1863/1956.
  421 M iii Philip Aylett was born in 1867. He died in 1868/1957.
  422 F iv Alice Aylett was born in 1868. She died in 1869/1962.
  423 M v William R. Aylett was born in 1872. He died in 1873/1962.
  424 F vi Bessie Aylett was born in 1873. She died in 1874/1967.
  425 M vii Patrick Henry Aylett was born in 1876. He died in 1877/1966.

224. Elizabeth Moore (Anna Henry Aylett , Elizabeth Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born in 1809/1844. She died in 1827/1925.

Elizabeth married John Milton Dabney in 1827/1876. John was born in 1801/1842. He died in 1827/1920.

They had the following children:

  426 F i Lucie Dabney was born in Mobile, AL.

DAR # 57247
        Lucie married Capt. James W. Powell.

225. Col. William Winston Fontaine (Sarah Shelton Aylett , Elizabeth Henry , Patrick , John , Alexander ) was born on 27 Nov 1834 in "Fontainebleau", King William Co., VA. He died in 1917 in probably TX.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffo6.aspl

FONTAINE, WILLIAM WINSTON (1834-?). William Winston Fontaine, school administrator and founder, son of William Spotswood Fontaine, was born at Montville, Virginia, on November 27, 1834. He was the great-grandson of Patrick Henry. He attended Rumford Male Academy and the University of Virginia, where he graduated in 1859, and then taught mathematics and Latin at Pegram School in Richmond. He married Mary Burroughs on April 2, 1861; they had six children. During the Civil Warqv Fontaine was a colonel in the Richmond Artillery, served at Seven Pines and at Richmond, was captured scouting behind enemy lines in 1864, and was released on parole in June 1865. The Fontaine plantation, Fontainebleau, was destroyed during the war, and Fontaine moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he established Spotswood Female Institute. In 1870 he moved to Texas to teach at Port Sullivan College in Milam County. He was president of Baylor Female Institute from 1871 to 1875, when he organized the Texas Female Institute at Austin. He was in charge of a boarding school for girls in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1880 to 1886, when he helped organize William Carey Crane College, at Independence, Texas; he taught there until 1889.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas (Chicago: Battey, 1889; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978). William S. Speer and John H. Brown, eds., Encyclopedia of the New West (Marshall, Texas: United States Biographical Publishing, 1881; rpt., Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978).

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Last Updated: February 15, 1999
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William married Mary Adelaide Burrows on 2 Apr 1861. Mary was born in 1809/1850. She died in 1830/1930.

They had the following children:

  427 F i Elizabeth Henry Fontaine was born in Independence Co., TX.

DAR # 59537
  428 M ii Lansing Fontaine.
  429 M iii William S. Fontaine.

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