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 1838 - 1898 (59 years)
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| Name |
Ogden Fontaine |
| Birth |
7 Dec 1838 |
Terre Haute, IN  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
23 Jun 1898 |
Memphis, Shelby County, TN |
| Person ID |
I21958 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Aaron Benjamin Fontaine, b. 4 Sep 1811, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY d. 29 Aug 1880, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY (Age 68 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Mary Elliott, b. 25 Feb 1817, Dublin, IRL d. 24 Apr 1904, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY (Age 87 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
19 Jan 1832 |
Morgan County, IL [1] |
| Family ID |
F8264 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Showing an early interest in commerce, Ogden soon gained employment in the cotton trade of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, he was in New Orleans and immediately enlisted in the Dreux Battalion of New Orleans. Ogden participated in the Peninsula Campaign in Virginia under General Magruder during the period of 1861-1862. When his enlistment ended in 1862, however, he enrolled in the Kentucky Calvary under the command of General John H. Morgan and served in the Kentucky and Tennessee campaigns, and on the Ohio Raid. With the breakup of Morgan's command in 1864, Ogden was assigned to that of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, where he remained until the war's end in 1865. He had entered the Confederate Army as a private but rose to the rank of captain. Ogden was severely wounded three times and was captured once, from which he escaped. Following the war, he worked as a cotton broker representing his brother's firm of Hill & Fontaine Cotton Company in Memphis, Tennessee. In this capacity, Ogden lived for a number of years in Vicksburg and, later on, for several years in Greenville, Mississippi. By the late 1880s, he had moved to Memphis where he settled permanently and resided in his brother's home until his death there around 1900. Ogden never married.
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| Sources |
- [S580] Dodd, Jordan R., et. al., Early American Marriages: Illinois to 1850, (Name: Bountiful, UT, Precision Indexing Publishers, 19xx;).
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