Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine

Name/Title

Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.21

Description

Photographic portrait of Annie Elizabeth Redd Fontaine as an older woman with gray or white hair. She is wearing a dark dress and a broach and sitting on a porch in front of a door and brick wall. Inscription on the back reads: Taken Jan 27th 1916. 69

Made/Created

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

Annie Elizabeth Redd, a great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry, was born on January 18, 1847, at "Woodlawn" in Henry County, Virginia. She married Rev. Patrick Henry Fontaine (1841-1915), also a great-great-grandson of Henry and her first cousin, on February 23, 1865. They had nine children. She was 69 at the time this photograph was taken. She died twenty years later 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.