On January 2, 1836, John was elected Mayor of Columbus, GA. February 26, 1840, John was elected President of the St. Joseph and Iola Railroad. John, Mary Ann, and several of their children and in-laws are buried in the Fontaine family plot in Linwood Cemetery, Columbus, GA.
It appears that all of the children of Thomas and Clarissa, except Benjamin, were born in South Carolina. The 1850 census of Mobile, Alabama, gives Benjamin's place of birth as Georgia.
