Sarah Lide

Family/Spouse: Joseph Wade. Joseph was born about 1689 in Virginia, USA; died in 1757 in Orange County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Peter Fontaine in 1740 in Virginia, USA. Peter (son of James Fontaine) was born on 1 Dec 1691 in Taunton, Somerset, England; died in Jul 1757 in Westover, Charles City, Virginia, USA; was buried in Westover Church, Westover Parish, Charles City County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Moses married Elizabeth BallardVirginia, USA. Elizabeth was born about 1746 in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Mills in 1764 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. William (son of Robert Mills and Mary Hopkins) was born about 1747 in Maryland, USA; died before 14 Nov 1831 in Hanover County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Mary Pauline Goode on 8 Feb 1773 in Mecklenburg County, VA. Mary (daughter of Edward Goode and Judith Morton) was born on 12 Feb 1756 in Lunenburg County, VA; died on 15 Aug 1812 in Christian County, KY; was buried in Wall Cemetery, Wallaria, Trigg County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abraham married Sarah Ballard on 14 Aug 1783 in Charles City County, VA. Sarah was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1800, Harrods Creek, Jefferson County, KY

Notes:

Served as ensign from Louisa County, Virginia militia.

Spotsylvania Co., VA Land
Book and Page: J
Date Made: 8 Mar 1774
Property: 260 a. in Spts. Co.
Remarks:
Joseph Herndon and Betty, his wife; Charles Gordon and Mary, his wife, of Spts. Co. to Aaron Fontaine. 200 curr. 260 a. in Spts. Co. Wm. Smith, Edwd. Herndon, Peter Stubblefield. Augt. 18, 1774.
Name Title Description Residence
Fontaine, Aaron Grantee Spotsylvania Co., VA
Gordon, Charles Grantor Spotsylvania Co., VA
Gordon, Mary Grantor's wife Spotsylvania Co., VA
Herndon, Betty Grantor's wife Spotsylvania Co., VA
Herndon, Edwd. Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA
Herndon, Joseph Grantor Spotsylvania Co., VA
Smith, Wm. Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA
Stubblefield, Peter Witness Spotsylvania Co., VA

Spotsylvania Co., VA Land
Book and Page: K
Date Made: 15 May 1782
Property: 260 a. in Spts. Co.
Remarks:
Aaron Fontaine and Barbara, his wife, to David Sandidge of Spots. co. 222 curr. 260 a. in Spots. Co. No witnesses. June 20, 1782. Name Title Description Residence
Fontaine, Aaron Grantor Spotsylvania Co., VA
Fontaine, Barbara Grantor's wife Spotsylvania Co., VA
Sandidge, David Grantee Spotsylvania Co., VA

From http://jscott.tierranet.com/ancestry/fontaine/aaronfon.htm

This is transcribed from a copy of a newspaper article "Century of Old Fontaine Estate" by Mary Lytle Byers (maybe from Courier Journal?) from 1914 (this date based on wording in text) The copy was in poor condition. Unreadable text is shown as ..... in the transcription below. It could be more than one article, as the pieces were fragmentary and hard to read. J. Scott, April 1999

"Little of all we value here
Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year
Without both looking and feeling queer -- "

Hardly can be held to apply to Fontaine Ferry park which under the management of Col. Harry A. Bilger, soon will open for the summer season of 1914. It is probable that few persons recall that this is the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the famous fountain that gave the celebrated amusement resort its name and prestige. An article prepared by Charles Thurston who is one of the descendants of the Fontaines, tells some interesting incidents in connection with the origin of the place.

Mr. Thurston says:
"Col. Aaron Fontaine came from Virginia in 1798 with a family of twelve children and his son-in-law, Judge Fortunatus Cosby, and settled on Harrods Creek in Jefferson county, of this State. He afterward removed, on January 17, 1814, to the banks of the Ohio river west of Louisville and established his family on a large estate which was purchased by him from Mr. William Lytle, of Cincinnati, O. This estate was part of 3,000 acres purchased by his son-in-law, Judge Fortunatus Cosby, from Sarah Beard, July 7, 1806, the property being known as part of the Connolly and De Warnsdorff tracts.

"The estate purchased by Col. Aaron Fontaine from William Lytle embraced... acres and at the time of its purchase the property was called "Carter's ferry". It was afterward named "Fontaine Ferry" by Col. Fontaine in 1814 and the place was laid out in orchards lawns and grasslands. The house, of substantial construction, faced the Ohio River, where a boat was kept for pleasure and service. A fine cypress avenue opened on what is now Main and the old "Fountaine Ferry Road" was a famous drive leading into the country retreat. Here Col. Fontaine lived the life of a country squire in the good old days in peace, plenty and hospitality, 100 years ago.

"Col. Fontaine was a gentleman of the old school whose type almost has passed away. He was of French descent and a member of a noble Huguenot family in France. Among the number of the ancestors of this Huguenot was the noted Peverence Peter Fontaine, rector of Westover parish, Charles City County, Va., in 1716. It is said of Col. Fontaine that he was particularly courteous and polite to everyone with whom he came in contact and particularly so to his wife to whom he always doffed his hat before taking his morning toddy and insisted that she taste the toddy first.

"Col. Fontaine, previous to his emigration to Kentucky in 1798, married Barbara Terril, of Virginia, who traced her lineage to the royal house of Stuart and was the granddaughter of Col. William Overton, of "Glencairn," Hanover county, Va. Twelve children were born of this marriage as follows: Mary Ann, the wife of Judge Fortunatus Cosby; Mathilda, the wife of Thomas Prather; Martha, the wife of Alexander Pope; America, the wife of William S. Vernon; Sallie, the wife of Gov. George Floyd; Deborah, the wife of Judge Edmund Bullock; Maria the wife of Sterling Grimes; Barbara, the wife of John Sanders, Ann Overton, the wife of John I. Jacob, and Peter, John and Maury Fontaine, sons.

"Soon after the death of his first wife, Barbara Terrill Fontaine, Col. Fontaine married Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston, the widow of Col. John Thruston, of "Sans Souel," of Jefferson county, who was with Gen. George Rogers Clark in the campaigns against the British and the Indians at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. Mrs. Thruston had ten children when she married Col. Fontaine and four children were the result of this marriage.

"Mrs. Elizabeth Whiting Thruston's children were Charles M. Thruston, Sr., lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856; Alfred Thruston, cashier of the Bank of Louisville in 1833; Algernon Thruston, Attorney General of Texas, killed at the side of Davy Crockett in "The Alamo:" Lucius Thruston, Louisville; Mrs. Kitty Luckett, Louisville; Mrs. Worden Pope, Louisville; Mrs. Mollie January, St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Fanny Rector, of Arkansas; Mary Thruston, of Louisville, and John Thruston, II, Louisville. The children of the marriage of Col. Fontaine and Mrs. Thruston were Aaron B. Fontaine, Alexander Fontaine, Henry W. Fontaine and Emmeline Dillon Fontaine.

.... have twenty six children .... ets of children in this ... family and the writer has ... distinction of being the ...grandson of Col. Aaron Fontaine and his two wives as well as Judge Fortunatus Cosby and his wife Mary Ann, and the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Thruston, Sr., the latter being a granddaughter of Col. Fontaine and the daughter of Judge Cosby. It is unusual that a grandson should be related on both sides to all the heads of the three families by direct blood descent.

"There may be several omissions in this genealogy which the writer is notable to supply from his notes, but the data given is of sufficient scope to interest the large number of descendants of this extensive connection now living in Louisville.

"In conclusion it may not be amiss to mention some of the members of this family who have achieved something more than a local reputation. Among the number whose names are recalled are Gen. George Cosby, C.S.A., of California; Admiral Frank Coast, U.S. Navy; Gen. Gates Thruston, U.S.A., Nashville, Tenn.; Admiral Levin Powell, U.S.N., Washington D.C., Algernon Thruston, ex - Attorney General, of Texas; Henry Rector, formerly Governor of Arkansas; Alfred Thruston, first cashier of the Bank of Louisville; Judge Buckner Thruston, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1805 to 1809; Patrick ... (Fontaine?), member of Congress from the... district of Kentucky, and Charles .... Thruston, eminent as a lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856.

The son of this Jean de la Fontaine became a minister of the Protestant churches of Royan and Vaux -- he was called the "prophet of the persecution," as by his untiring labor and exhortations he prepared his people for the great persecution of the Huguenots that followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes. This devoted pastor, though of simple tastes and abstemious habits, was a man of commanding figure and dignified presence. By his second marriage to a beautiful French girl --Marie de Chaillon -- an heiress and much his, junior, he became the owner of the estate of Jenouille and the Manor of Jaffe. It was here that his youngest son -- and a man destined to make the name renowned in history as "the fighting Huguenot" -- was born in 1653.

"The Fighting Huguenot."

Jacques Fontaine -- for the title had been dropped -- the most famous of the name, gives a personal account in his "Memoirs of a Huguenot" of his trial and persecution for the faith, his daring escape with his betrothed wife from France, and their subsequent life and adventures in England. After teaching school, inventing and manufacturing a new weave of cloth, he finally went to Ireland, taking charge of a French congregation in Cork. Here M. Fontaine was held in such esteem that he was presented with the freedom of the city. It was in an engagement with a French privateer, manned by Frenchmen and carrying eighty men and ten guns, off the coast of Ireland, that M. Fontaine defended his household and himself so bravely that through the influence of his friend, the Duke of Ormonde and Governor General of Ireland, he was granted a pension from Queen Anne in 1705, in recognition of his bravery and service.

The Coming to Virginia

It remained for three sons and one daughter of "the fighting Huguenot" to perpetuate the name and qualities of their ancestors in the new world. Capt. John Fontaine, and English officer; Pierre and Francis, both clergymen of the Church of England, and Mary Anne Fontaine, their sister, who had married Matthew Maury, of Castle Mauron, Gascony, landed in Virginia, and were given a cordial welcome by Gov. Spotteswoode. Mary Anne Maury became the ancestress of the many noted men and women of that name. Pierre Fontaine had the good fortune to become the rector of Westover parish and chaplain to that "prince of the lordly manor of Westover," the distinguished Col. William Evelyn Byrd. In a novel by Marian Harland, called "His Great Self," founded on the Westover manuscripts of Col. Byrd, Pierre Fontaine is shown to be a familiar member of the household, and an intimate friend of the beautiful Evelyn. He is described as "a polished scholar and courtly gentleman of winning manners, with an olive complexion, clearly chiseled features, soft, dark brilliant eyes, 'a true descendant of the handsomest man in Navarre.'"

Romance says he was in love with the ill-fated Evelyn Byrd, but realizing the hopelessness of his own suit aided her by every means in his power in her unfortunate love affair with her English lover, Lord Peterborough.

Both Pierre Fontaine and his brother, Capt., John Fontaine, were members of Gov. Spottesswoode's famous expedition across the blue Ridge in 1716, which ended on their return in the institution of the "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe," Gov. Spotteswoode presenting to each member a miniature gold horseshoe inscribed with the motto "Sic Juvat transcendere Montes." The journal of Capt. John Fontaine had been preserved, in which he gives an account of the party reaching the top of the range of mountains, and drinking a health to King George and the royal family.

Some Noted descendants.

A grandson of the Rev. Pierre Fontaine, of Westover, Col. William Fontaine, was an officer in the Revolution, being present with his regiment at the surrender of Yorktown by Lord Cornwallis. A letter written to his relatives, soon after the glorious event, gives the personal description of an eye-witness.

Other noted representatives of the family were Charles D. Fontaine, of New Orleans, a great-grandson of Patrick Henry, and a celebrated statesman; Dr. Clement Rush Fontaine, an eminent physician of Virginia; Col. Walter Lloyd Fontaine and Lamar Fontaine, known as a "raconteur" and daring Confederate soldier.

Various descendants of the Fontaine family have distinguished themselves in the service of the army and navy while others in the church and the professions have reflected credit on the name.

The Kentucky Fontaines.

The Fontaines of Kentucky, brought to the Commonwealth the heritage of an honored ... and ancestry, were descended from Aaron Fontaine, son of the Rev. Peter Fontaine, of Westover, and born -- it is said -- in his father's seventieth year, 1753.

In his youth young Aaron Fontaine lived with his sister, Mrs. Isaac Winston

Aaron married Elizabeth Thruston Whiting on 18 Jun 1805 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. Elizabeth was born about 1771 in Virginia, USA; died in Jul 1822 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Aaron married Barbara Overton Terrell on 19 May 1773 in Louisa County, VA. Barbara (daughter of Jr. Richmond Terrell and Ann Overton) was born on 3 Sep 1756 in St Martins, Louisa County, VA; died on 10 Jul 1798 in en route to Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tabitha married ThompsonVirginia, USA. was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliza married BeaversVirginia, USA. was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Samuel Woodson on 5 Jun 1782 in Goochland County, Virginia, USA. Samuel (son of Matthew Woodson and Elizabeth LeVillian) was born on 24 Jul 1761 in Goochland County, Virginia, USA; was christened on 6 Sep 1761 in Goochland County, Virginia, USA; died in Hopkins County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Susannah Allen on 9 Jan 1801 in Henry County, VA. Susannah was born about 1780; died before 1850. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Henry married Sarah Shelton on 9 Sep 1803 in Henry County, VA. Sarah was born about 1780; died about 1860. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Sarah Moore on 3 Nov 1807 in Henry County, VA. Sarah was born about 1786; died in Mar 1850 in Henry County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anstis married John S. Oakley about 1805. John was born about 1785 in Virginia, USA; died in Henry County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Hannah Hicks on 12 Mar 1812 in Christian County, KY. Hannah (daughter of Absalom Hicks and Elizabeth) was born on 19 Sep 1795 in Christian County, KY; died on 27 Oct 1871 in Boone County, MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matthew married Rachel Wallace on 30 Nov 1834 in Hempstead County, AR. Rachel was born on 1 Jan 1808 in Tennessee; died on 2 Apr 1860 in Ozan, Hempstead County, AR. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliza married John G. PatrickVirginia, USA. John was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clement married E. EvansVirginia, USA. E. was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married M. DickensonVirginia, USA. M. was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married M. F. Nicholas in 1792 in Virginia, USA. M. was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Walter married G. NicholasVirginia, USA. G. was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Yellow fever

Henry married Susan Elizabeth Bryson on 8 Jul 1834 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. Susan (daughter of James W Bryson and Ann Kinslaw Martin) was born in Virginia, USA; died in Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emmeline married Patrick Henry Dillon on 1 Jul 1830 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. Patrick was born in Virginia, USA; died in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Went to TX

Family/Spouse: Delahurst. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Marion Nevin on 18 Mar 1835. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

AARON BENJAMIN FONTAINE (1811-1880) was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on September 4, 1811, the youngest child of Aaron Fontaine and his second wife, Elizabeth Whiting (widow Thruston). He was reared and educated at home on his father's plantation, "Fontaine's Ferry," located just to the west of Louisville and on the south bank of the Ohio River. Aaron was only twelve years of age when his father died, and in accordance with the will, he was placed under the guardianship of two of his Thruston stepbrothers, both of whom were lawyers in Louisville. He and his older brother, Henry, studied law under one or both of his guardians. Aaron was admitted to the bar in 1831 and, almost immediately, married MARY ELLIOTT, the daughter of an Irish immigrant named Edward Elliott. She was born in Ireland in 1818 and brought to America as a small child. Shortly after their marriage, Aaron and Mary moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, where he held land which he had inherited from his father and the Thurston's had various commercial interests. They lived in Terre Haute for ten years while he practiced law and engaged in land speculation. During their sojourn in Indiana, four of their five children were born, In the mid-1840s, the family returned to Louisville, and Aaron became involved both in the practice of law and in diverse business interests. He died in Louisville on August 29, 1880, and Mary died there, more than two decades later, on April 24, 1904. They had five children.

Source: Ancestors and Descendants of Rev. Peter Fontaine (1691-1759) of
Westover Parish, Charles City County, Virginia, by Charles J. Ragland

Aaron married Mary Elliott on 19 Jan 1832 in Morgan County, IL. Mary was born on 25 Feb 1817 in Dublin, IRL; died on 24 Apr 1904 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Fortunatus Cosby in 1786/1817 in Louisa County, VA. Fortunatus (son of Charles Scott Cosby and Elizabeth Sydnor) was born on 25 Dec 1766 in Georgia; died on 19 Oct 1847 in Harrods Creek near Louisville, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married George Rogers Clark Floyd on 16 Apr 1810 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. George (son of John Floyd and Jane Buchannan) was born in 1781 in Floyds Station, KY; died in 1821 in Woodstock, Fayette County, KY; was buried in Breckinridge Family Cemetery, Louisville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Marengo, Alabama
• Residence: 1870, Bashi, Clarke, Alabama, USA

Notes:

Census Information
1850 - value of property $600.

Birth:
"Bien Venue", Louisa Co., VA

William married Elizabeth Garnett Pearson on 6 Apr 1818 in Clarke, Alabama, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John Pearson and Nancy Leonard) was born on 25 Sep 1799 in Wilkes, Georgia, USA; died on 25 May 1864 in Clarke, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married John Jeremiah Jacob on 16 Jun 1811 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. John (son of William Jacob and Mary Monk) was born on 20 Oct 1778 in Baltimore City, MD; died on 1 Apr 1852 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Maria married Sterling Grimes on 24 Jun 1810 in Jefferson County, KY. Sterling (son of John Grimes and Elizabeth Wingfield) was born on 10 Jan 1782 in Georgia; died on 14 Dec 1826 in VA or GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matilda married III Thomas Prather on 12 Feb 1800 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. Thomas (son of Jr. Thomas M. Sprigg Prather and Jeanette Smiley) was born on 2 Dec 1770 in Virginia, USA; died on 3 Feb 1823 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Marriages--Kentucky to 1850
Jefferson County
Fontaine, Martha M. married Pope, Alexander on 04 Oct 1806 in Jefferson
County, Kentucky

Martha married Alexander Pope on 4 Oct 1806 in Jefferson County, KY. Alexander (son of William Pope and Penelope Edwards) was born on 6 Sep 1784 in Goochland County, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Dec 1826 in Virginia, USA; was buried in Cave Hill, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source: Register of St. James Northam Parish, Goochland Co., VA

Barbara married Charles Sydnor Cosby on 4 May 1819 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA. Charles (son of Anthony Sydnor Cosby and Cynthia Catherine Jack) was born in 1790 in Wilkes County, Georgia, USA; died on 7 Jan 1822 in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married John Wynal Sanders on 22 Oct 1827 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY. John was born on 28 Feb 1789; died on 3 Jun 1849 in LA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Peter and Catherine had three children.

Died:
Dropsy

Peter married Catherine Taylor on 30 Mar 1797 in Jefferson County, KY. Catherine was born in Virginia, USA; died in Apr 1813 in Louisville, Jefferson County, KY; was buried in Cave Hill with Jacob family; no marker. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Edmund Bullock on 19 May 1799 in Jefferson County, KY. Edmund was born in Virginia, USA; died in 1852 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Deborah Hobbs on 21 Mar 1799 in Nelson County, KY. Deborah (daughter of Joseph Hobbs and Ann Maynard) was born on 25 Jul 1778 in Frederick County, MD; died on 4 Nov 1867 in Brandenburg, Meade County, KY; was buried in Old Cem. on Bluff, Brandenburg, Meade County, KY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

America married William Sidney Vernon on 16 Jan 1809 in Jefferson County, KY. William (son of Samuel Vernon) was born on 25 Dec 1779 in Newport, Newport County, RI; died on 12 May 1873 in Louisa County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]