Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine

Name/Title

Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.19

Description

Photographic portrait of a young Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine tucked into a black cardboard folder. Inscription outside reads: James Fontaine Bladensburg, Md. Inscription inside reads: "Mama" Taken 1863 (aged 17) Belonging to James Fontaine

Made/Created

Studio

The Paine Studio

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

Annie Elizabeth Redd (1847-1936), a great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry, was born on January 18, 1847, at "Woodlawn" in Henry County, Virginia. This photograph was taken when she was seventeen by the Paine Studio in Washington, DC. She married Rev. Patrick Henry Fontaine (1841-1915), a great-great-grandson of Henry and her first cousin, on February 23, 1865. They had nine children. She died on February 21, 1936, in Bethel Hill, North Carolina, and was buried with her husband in the Amis Chapel Cemetery (Granville, North Carolina). 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. Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine was her grandmother.