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| 2. | Henry Dick Lester was born on 17 Apr 1842 in Hinds County, Mississippi, USA; died in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Residence: 16 Dec 1850, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1860, Township 5, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1910, Covington, St Tammany, Louisiana, USA
Henry married Mary Bogard "Bertie" Fontaine on 20 Dec 1892 in Madison County, Mississippi, USA. Mary (daughter of Patrick Henry Fontaine and Mary "Molly" Elizabeth Meade) was born on 8 Dec 1869 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. | Mary Bogard "Bertie" Fontaine was born on 8 Dec 1869 in New Orleans, Orleans, 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, Covington, St Tammany, Louisiana, USA
- Residence: 1920, New Orleans Ward 11, Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Relation to Head: Mother; Residence Marital Status: Widow
- Residence: 1930, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA; Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head: Head
- Residence: 1935, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA
- Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA; Marital Status: Widowed; Relation to Head of House: Head
- Residence: 1943, Jackson; East Jackson; Pearl City, 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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| 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
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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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