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Family: Fontaine, Colonel Aaron / Whiting, Elizabeth (F2333)

m. Abt 1805


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  • Father | Male
    Fontaine, Colonel Aaron

    Born  30 Nov 1753  Charles City, Charles City, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  1 Apr 1823  Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried  1823  Back Of Fontaine, Ferry Park, Louisville, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location
    Married  Abt 1805  Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
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    Mother | Female
    Whiting, Elizabeth

    Born  Abt 1776  Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  2 Jul 1822  Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     
    Other Spouse  Thruston, Col John | F2332 
    Married  13 Oct 1782  Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  Whiting, Colonel Thomas | F2329 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Thruston, Elizabeth | F2329 Group Sheet 

    Child 1 | Male
    Fontaine, Alexander Madison

    Born  1806  Louisville, Jffrsn., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Unknown   
    Buried     

    Child 2 | Male
    Fontain, Henry

    Born  13 Nov 1807  Louisville, Jffrsn., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location
    Christened  21 Nov 1839   
    Died  21 Nov 1839  Houston, Harris Co., TX Find all individuals with events at this location
    Buried     

    Child 3 | Female
    Fontaine, Emaline

    Born  1809  Louisville, Jffrsn., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  Unknown   
    Buried     

    Child 4 | Male
    Fontaine, Aaron Benjamin

    Born  1811  Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Died  DECEASED   
    Buried     

  • Notes 
    • "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, Attourney 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.
      http://www.stithvalley.com/ancestry/fontaine/aaronfon.htm