Annie Redd Fontaine

Name/Title

Annie Redd Fontaine

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.6

Description

Photographic portrait of Annie Redd Fontaine as a baby, sitting on a comforter. Inscription written on the back reads: Annie Redd Fontaine daughter of Matthew Maury Fontaine and Lillian his Wife

Made/Created

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

Annie Redd Fontaine, a fourth-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry, was born on July 3, 1937, in Washington, DC. Her parents were Matthew Maury Fontaine (1890-1983) and Lillian Brandon Fontaine (1909-1998). She married William Ramsey Snyder (1935-) in 1957 and they had two children: William Brandon Snyder and Jennifer Suzanne Snyder. This photograph of her as an baby 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. Annie Redd Fontaine was her cousin.