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| 2. | Joseph Gibson Ford was born on 18 Dec 1874 in Camden, Madison, Mississippi, USA (son of Robert Augustus Ford and Martha Jane Galtney); died on 13 Oct 1927 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: Jackson City
- Residence: 1880, Canton, Madison, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1910, Jackson Ward 3, Hinds, Mississippi
Joseph married Annie Meade Fontaine. Annie (daughter of Patrick Henry Fontaine and Mary "Molly" Elizabeth Meade) was born about 1872 in Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. | Annie Meade Fontaine was born about 1872 in Louisiana, USA (daughter of Patrick Henry Fontaine and Mary "Molly" Elizabeth Meade). Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1880, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head: Daughter
- Residence: 1910, Jackson Ward 3, Hinds, Mississippi
- Residence: 1910, Jackson Ward 3, Hinds, Mississippi
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| 4. | Robert Augustus Ford was born about 1848 in Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA (son of Thomas J Ford and Eugenia V Burrows); died on 7 Jul 1915 in Hodge, Mississippi, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1860, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1880, Canton, Madison, Mississippi, USA
Robert married Martha Jane Galtney on 20 Feb 1873 in Madison, Madison, Mississippi, USA. Martha (daughter of David Killian Galtney and Emeline Divine) was born on 25 Mar 1848 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 20 Oct 1895 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 5. | Martha Jane Galtney was born on 25 Mar 1848 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA (daughter of David Killian Galtney and Emeline Divine); died on 20 Oct 1895 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1850, Madison, Mississippi
- Residence: 1850, Yazoo, Mississippi
- Residence: 1860, Madison, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1870, Police District 4, Madison, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1880, Canton, Madison, Mississippi, USA
Children:
- 2. Joseph Gibson Ford was born on 18 Dec 1874 in Camden, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 13 Oct 1927 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA.
- William Watkins Ford was born on 23 Jun 1876 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 29 Sep 1937 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA.
- Mary Elizabeth Ford was born on 18 Apr 1878 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 6 May 1954 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA.
- Robert Augustus Ford, Jr. was born on 13 Apr 1880 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 12 Oct 1912.
- David Galtney Ford was born on 9 Feb 1883 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 22 Oct 1950 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA.
- Kinsman Devine Ford was born on 20 Apr 1885 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 4 Feb 1947 in Blytheville, Mississippi, Arkansas, USA.
- Martha "Mattie" Galtney Ford was born on 16 Feb 1888 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA.
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| 6. | Patrick Henry Fontaine was born about 1845 in Belvedere Plantation, Hinds, Mississippi, USA (son of Edward Benjamin Fontaine and Mary Ann "Nancy" Swisher); died on 16 Mar 1888 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1850, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1880, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Self
Patrick married Mary "Molly" Elizabeth Meade on 16 May 1868 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Mary was born about 1850 in Ohio, USA; died on 29 Jun 1889 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 7. | Mary "Molly" Elizabeth Meade was born about 1850 in Ohio, USA; died on 29 Jun 1889 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1880, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Wife
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| 9. | Eugenia V Burrows was born about 1830; died about 1850 in Mississippi, USA. Children:
- 4. Robert Augustus Ford was born about 1848 in Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi, USA; died on 7 Jul 1915 in Hodge, Mississippi, USA.
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| 10. | David Killian Galtney was born on 7 Oct 1807 in Jefferson, Mississippi, USA; died in Jun 1880 in Madison, Madison, Mississippi, USA. David married Emeline Divine. Emeline was born on 22 Jul 1815 in Rodney, Jefferson, Mississippi, USA; died on 16 Apr 1877 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 11. | Emeline Divine was born on 22 Jul 1815 in Rodney, Jefferson, Mississippi, USA; died on 16 Apr 1877 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA. Children:
- 5. Martha Jane Galtney was born on 25 Mar 1848 in Sharon, Madison, Mississippi, USA; died on 20 Oct 1895 in Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA.
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| 12. | Edward Benjamin Fontaine was born on 5 Aug 1814 in "Greenwood", Henry, Virginia, USA (son of Patrick Henry Fontaine and Nancy Dabney Miller); died on 19 Jan 1884 in Belvedere Plantation, Pocahontas, Hinds, Mississippi, USA; was buried in Belvedere Plantation, Pocahontas, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. Notes:
Rev. Edward Fontaine and his wife and John E. Fontaine are buried on Belvedere Plantation, next to Sub Rosa, near Pocahontas, Ms. T7NR1W-Sec 11 or 12 Hinds Co., Ms.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/FF/ffo4.html
FONTAINE, EDWARD (1814-1884). Edward Fontaine, early minister and amateur naturalist, was born in Greenwood, Virginia, on August 5, 1814, the son of Patrick Henry and Nancy (Dabney) Fontaine and great-grandson of Patrick Henry. He was admitted to the United States Military Academy, West Point, in July 1830 but was discharged in July 1832 because of a deficiency in math. He was admitted to the bar on February 28, 1835. That year he worked in Pontotoc, Mississippi, as a draftsman on the survey of Chickasaw lands acquired by the federal government.
He became active in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was admitted to the ministry in 1838, and served in Texas at Houston and Galveston by 1840, but later that year he relinquished his ministry. He married Mary Ann Swisher in November 1840, and they had three sons. From May to October 1841 he was private secretary to President Mirabeau B. Lamar. There being no clergyman of any denomination in Austin, Fontaine resolved to do what he could for the religious welfare of his fellow citizens. He organized a Sunday school and preached to all comers, black and white, at informal services in the Capitol or outside in an oak grove. When the seat of government was moved away from Austin and Lamar's term had ended, Fontaine taught school in Independence and Gay Hill in 1842-43. He may have participated in the Somervell expedition in the fall of 1842. About 1843 he went to Mississippi, where he entered the Episcopal Church and was ordained to the ministry on May 14, 1848. In 1851 he returned to Austin as rector of the Church of the Epiphany. He supervised the building of a church, completed and consecrated in May 1855, that became part of the present St. David's Church, Austin. Fontaine's wife died in 1855. In 1859 he married Mrs. Susan Taylor Britton. They had several children, but only two lived to maturity. In Austin Fontaine was active as a clergyman, politician, and amateur naturalist. He traveled widely, served as chaplain of the Texas Senate in 1857-58, and advocated establishment of a state university and a geological survey.
The church suffered in antebellum Texas because of a division in the membership on questions of slavery and secession. Fontaine resigned his charge in Austin and moved to Mississippi in 1859. He was captain of Company H, Eighteenth Regiment, Mississippi Volunteers, and chief of ordnance of the Mississippi Army during the Civil War. He served subsequently as rector at St. Mark's, Mississippi, and at Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. He was a member of the New York Historical Society, the Maryland Academy of Science, and the New Orleans Academy of Science. He delivered addresses and wrote papers about his various scientific interests. His lectures included "How the World Was Peopled" (1872), which contained information on the natural history of Texas, "Winds of the Gulf States" (1873), and "A Lecture on the Peculiarities of the Physical Geography of the Mississippi River and its Delta" (1874). He died at Belvedere, Mississippi, on January 19, 1884.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Austin History Center Files. Edward Fontaine Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Texas Collection, October 1943. Daisy Barrett Tanner, The History and Treasures of St. David's Church (Austin, 1976). Work Projects Administration Writers' Program, St. David's through the Years (Austin: St. David's Episcopal Church, 1942).
DuBose Murphy
The Texas State Historical Association, 1997, 1998, 1999.
Last Updated: February 15, 1999
Comments to: comments@www.tsha.utexas.edu
Edward married Mary Ann "Nancy" Swisher on 12 Nov 1840 in Gay Hill, Washington, Texas, USA. Mary (daughter of Henry Harvey "Harry" Swisher and Sina Boyd) was born on 7 Jan 1821 in Williamson County, Tennessee, USA; died on 13 Jul 1855 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; was buried in Pocahontas, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 13. | Mary Ann "Nancy" Swisher was born on 7 Jan 1821 in Williamson County, Tennessee, USA (daughter of Henry Harvey "Harry" Swisher and Sina Boyd); died on 13 Jul 1855 in Austin, Travis, Texas, USA; was buried in Pocahontas, Hinds, Mississippi, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 1838, No Township Listed, Washington County, Texas, USA
- Residence: 1850, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, USA
Children:
- Edward Fontaine was born on 4 Aug 1849 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, USA.
- 6. Patrick Henry Fontaine was born about 1845 in Belvedere Plantation, Hinds, Mississippi, USA; died on 16 Mar 1888 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Jacques Mirabeau Bonaparte Lamar Fontaine was born on 11 Oct 1841 in Washington County, Texas, USA; died on 1 Oct 1921 in Clarksdale, Coahoma, Mississippi, USA; was buried in Clarksdale, Coahoma, Mississippi, USA.
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