| 12. | Jacques Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar Fontaine was born on 11 Oct 1841 in Washington County, Texas, USA (son of Edward Benjamin Fontaine and Mary Ann "Nancy" Swisher); died on 1 Oct 1921 in Clarksdale, Coahoma, Mississippi, USA; was buried in Clarksdale, Coahoma, Mississippi, USA. Notes:
NOTE: This can't be totally accurate as Lamar's parents were not old enough for him to have been born in 1829. Edward was not the oldest son of P.H. Fontaine.
Early Settlers of Alabama, Page 297
Fontaine, of Mississippi.
833 NORTH STATE STREET, JACKSON, Miss., December 29, 1887.
James E. Saunders, Esq., Courtland, Ala.:
DEAR SIR--Your favor of the 26th inst. was handed me last night and took me somewhat by surprise, as I thought that all the Fontaines of the South knew that I was the oldest Fontaine of the numerous branches, genealogically speaking, now extant since the death of my father. Edward Fontaine, L. L. D. and D. D. & C. I am one of the Fontaines set down on the Fontaine chart. On the American chart descended as follows: John Fontaine X Martha Henry, eldest daughter of Patrick Henry, of Virginia; Patrick H. Fontaine (eldest son of John Fontaine and Martha Henry) X Nancy Dabney Miller, Edward Fontaine (eldest son of Patrick Henry Fontaine and Nancy Dabney Miller) X Ann Swisher (nee Mary), eldest son is myself; and I was born in Texas (10th October, 1829, one of the first male births in Stephen .F. Austin's colony in that State) before it was a republic. I married Lemnella S. Brickell, of Yazoo county, Miss. My eldest child is Henry Bourquoine Brickell F.; second, Jeanie Wilson; third, Edward L.; fourth, Mary Agnes; fifth, James Francis; sixth, Annie Gale; seventh, Lemnella Moore; eighth, Lamar, Jr. My youngest is now six years old and my eldest will soon reach his majority. I am a surveyor and civil engineer by profession.
During the war I served under Lee, Jackson, Beauregard, Bragg and Joseph E. Johnston. My last commander was P. D. Roddy, of North Alabama, and I was once in command of Tuscumbia, Ala.
Very respectfully yours,
LAMAR FONTAINE.
NOTE.--Author of "All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night," and "Charge of Rodes' Brigade at Seven Pines" and celebrated poems of the civil war.
Jacques married Llemuella Smith Brickell on 20 Jan 1866 in Yazoo City, Yazoo, Mississippi, USA. Llemuella was born on 7 May 1843 in Holly Springs, Marshall County, MS; died on 7 Jan 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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