 1840 - 1912 (72 years)
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| Name |
Noland Fontaine |
| Birth |
6 Jul 1840 |
Terre Haute, IN  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
14 Sep 1912 |
Memphis, Shelby County, TN |
| Burial |
Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, Shelby County, TN |
| Person ID |
I21959 |
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 |
| Family |
Virginia Eanes, b. 1845, Tennessee d. 27 Jul 1928, Memphis, Shelby County, TN (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
21 Apr 1864 |
Shelby County, TN |
| Children |
| | 1. Martha Fontaine, b. 1878, Shelby County, TN d. 1967 (Age 89 years) [natural] |
| | 2. Edward Fontaine, b. 1876, Shelby County, TN d. 1933 (Age 57 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Elliott Hill Fontaine, b. 1880, Shelby County, TN d. 1918 (Age 38 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Emma Fontaine, b. 1870, Shelby County, TN d. 1951 (Age 81 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Mollie Fontaine, b. 1866, Shelby County, TN d. 1939 (Age 73 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Jr. Noland Fontaine, b. 1874, Shelby County, TN d. 1957 (Age 83 years) [natural] |
| | 7. Seward Fontaine, b. 1882, Shelby County, TN d. INFANT [natural] |
| | 8. Virginia Fontaine, b. 1872, Shelby County, TN d. 1968 (Age 96 years) [natural] |
| | 9. Williamson Fontaine, b. 1868, Shelby County, TN d. 1884 (Age 16 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F8346 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Noland's home, the Woodruff-Fontaine House, is a historic home in Memphis.
Noland's will probated in White Co. AR
By the age of twenty-one, and with limited experiences, Noland had developed an acute commercial sense, and became a first-class business opportunist. When war clouds began to gather in 1861, he realized that vast fortunes could be made if one were simply in the right place at the right time. For Noland, Memphis, Tennessee was the right place and 1861 the right time. Memphis was ideally located on the Mississippi River between the cotton-growing South and the Northern Mills, where one could acquire contraband cotton at a reduced price and sell it northward where the price would skyrocket. He arrived in Memphis in April of 1861, the same month in which Fort Sumter was fired upon and the Civil War began. With the backing of a certain Louisville interest, Noland quickly established himself as a cotton buyer and became president of the new firm of Hill, Fontaine & Company. By 1862 the city was occupied by Union troops and became the most important center in the South for shipment of cotton to northern mills. On April 21, 1864, Noland married in Memphis, VIRGINIA E. EANES, who was born in Tennessee in 1845. In the years following the war, he became one of the wealthiest businessmen in Memphis, ................Noland died at his home on September 14, 1912. Virginia continued to live at "Fontaine House" with some of their children until her death on July 27, 1928.
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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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