Joseph
Fontaine
Born about in Westover Parish, Charles City County, Colony of Virginia
Ancestors 
Son of Peter Fontaine Sr
and Sarah Elizabeth (Wade) Fontaine
Brother of
Mary Anne (Fontaine) Winston [half], Peter Fontaine Jr. [half], Moses Fontaine, Sarah (Fontaine) Curd, Elizabeth (Fontaine) Mills, Aaron Fontaine and Abraham Fontaine
Husband of
Mary Pauline (Goode) Fontaine
— married
8 Feb 1773 in Mecklenburg, Virginia
Descendants 
Father of
Joseph Fontaine and Icy Phoena (Fountain) Griffith
Died
at about age 65
in Trigg County, Kentucky, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 25 Mar 2011
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Biography
Joseph was the son of Peter Fontaine and Sarah Wade
DAR
- FONTAINE, JOSEPH Ancestor #: A040419
- Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE
- Birth: 1745 CHARLES CITY CO VIRGINIA
- Death: 8-18-1813 CHRISTIAN CO KENTUCKY
- Service Source: TLC GENEALOGY, HALIFAX CO VA TAX LISTS 1782-1791, P 59
- Service Description: 1) PAID SUPPLY TAX, HALIFAX CO, 1783
- Spouse:
- 1) MARY POLLY GOODE
Joseph married Mary Goode on 8 Feb 1773 in Mecklenburg, Virginia
In 1803, Joseph and Mary Goode Fontaine joined a wagon train with some of their Halifax Virginia neighbors and followed the Cumberland Gap to Christian County in southwestern Kentucky. Mary died on their farm located on the North Fork of Little River near Wallonia in Trigg County on August 12, 1812 and Joseph followed her on September 1, 1813.
Sources
- Find A Grave, database and images (https://new.findagrave.com : accessed 26 October 2017), memorial page for Joseph Fontaine (25 Dec 1746–18 Aug 1813), Find A Grave: Memorial #119067272, citing Wall Cemetery, Wallonia, Trigg County, Kentucky, USA ; Maintained by sjlogan (contributor 48262706) .
- Mecklenburg, Virginia, Marriages Index, 1765-1810, Original data: Nottingham, Stratton. Marriage License Bonds of Mecklenburg County, Virginia from 1765 to 1810. Onancock, VA, USA: Stratton Nottingham, 1928.
- DAR, https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A040419
- Note: ref: Bob Juch's Kin (http://www.juch.org/fontaine/) (20 Feb 10)
- Updated link: http://www.juch.org/TNG1003/getperson.php?personID=I27117, unsoured (26 October 2017)
Acknowledgments
This profile was created through the import of Tribal Pages 0004.ged on 25 March 2011.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Joseph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Joseph:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Joseph by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Joseph:
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~1.56%
Jeff Sullivan
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Kaylene (Turner) Daughdrill :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A936728 [compare], Ancestry member daughdrillmartinez
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Sandra (Pumphrey) Humphreys :
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Living DNA
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~0.78%
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~0.78%
Shannon Russell :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A137975 [compare], Ancestry member russell4271
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~0.39%
Walker Hall :
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A630019 [compare], Ancestry member hallwal
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~0.39%
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