Lelia Byrd Chamblin

Photograph

Patrick Henry's Red Hill

Name/Title

Lelia Byrd Chamblin

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.15

Description

Photographic portrait of Lelia Byrd Chamblin. She is wearing a long striped skirt and a white blouse with a large veiled hat and dark parasol. "Leila" is written across the top left corner. Inscribed in pen on the back: Taken at Great Falls This Summer with my camera L- For John

Made/Created

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

Lelia Byrd Chamblin Fontaine (1878-1946) married Edmund Redd Fontaine (1880-1935), a great-great-grandson of Patrick Henry, on March 18, 1902. This photograph was given to PHMF on May 3, 2023, by Monique and Philip Heller. They 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. Lelia Byrd Chamblin Fontaine was her aunt.