Notes
Matthew Maury Fontaine, a great-great-grandson of Patrick Henry, was born on December 22, 1890, in Halifax County, Virginia. He married his former student Lillian Brandon (1909-1998) in Person County, North Carolina, on July 7, 1936, and they had three children: Annie Redd Fontaine, Betsey Brandon Fontaine, and Linda Lee Fontaine. He died on May 3, 1983, in Bethel Hill (Person County), North Carolina, and is buried at Bethel Hill Baptist Church.
This photograph was taken when Fontaine was a young boy. It was given to PHMF on May 3, 2023, by Monique and Philip Heller, who inherited this object and the others in this accession from her stepmother, Catherine Spotswood Fontaine Lawrence (1938-2015), a third-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry. Matthew Maury Fontaine was her uncle.