Marian Dandridge Fontaine Redd

Photograph

Patrick Henry's Red Hill

Name/Title

Marian Dandridge Fontaine Redd

Entry/Object ID

2023.30.4

Description

Photographic portrait of Marian Dandridge Fontaine Redd. She has dark hair that is pulled back and adorned with a fancy hat. She is wearing a dark-colored dress. The photograph itself was cut into a circular shape and glued to a square white matte with decoratively trimmed edges. Inscription on the back reads: Marian Redd For dear Corrie from _____

Made/Created

Notes

Original

Provenance

Notes

Marian Dandridge Fontaine, a great-great-granddaughter of Patrick Henry, was born on May 19, 1840, at "Fontainebleau" in King William County, Virginia. She married her cousin, Dr. John Hairston (Giles) Redd (1835-1902) at "Everhope" in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1864. There are no documented children between them. She died on February 11, 1913, in Reidsville, North Carolina. 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. Marian was her great aunt.