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1Lewis Hampton Jones, Jones, Captain Roger of London and Virginia, Louisville, Ky.: L.H. Jones, 1911. 442 p, Pg 174-175, FHL 1321070. "Elizabeth Fauntleroy, who was my grandmother, was born at "Mars Hill," in 1790-91, married (56) Thos. ap Thos. Jones, and died in Clark county, Ky., August 31, 1865. I remember her quite well. She was an excellent type of the old Virginia lady. Blue-eyed and auburn-haired, she bore her age remarkable well, and retained a full complement of good looks to the day of her death. In stature she was under the medium size and height; was very practical, industrious and economical - a good housewife, full of sprightliness, wit and humor, with a happy knack for communicating her vivacity to those around her. She was fond of society, and intolerant of snobbery in any form."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 24, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "By his father's will in 1750 he inherited 200 acres in Richmond County called "Quentenoak", which he sold in 1751 to Robert Tomlin. He also inherited 465 acres on Coan River in Cherry Point Neck, this tract was called "Bettyus Neck", and he sold it to Kenner Cralle in 1754. He also inherited tracts adjoining Cherry Point Glebe and one "bought of John Boaze".
He was commissioned, captain in the Virginia, Militia in 1755, and is said to have been an attorney. In 1754 he was fined 10 shillings for being a "common swearer". In 1755 James Smith (?) got judgement against him of £ 10 for trespass, assault, and battery. In 1755 he moved to Spottsylvania County, and probably moved back to Northumberland about 1760, as he sold his 700 acres of land in Spottsylvania. in that year, and his name frequently appears in Northumberland records thereafter."2Virginia Historical Magazine, The. Vol 1. Number 1. July 1891, Jefferson Wallace, Richmond, Virginia, pg 5. Copied by Sararh Yeiser Mason Heerman. "Griffin Fauntleroy, was Justice of Northumberland in 1744 and was probably the Griffin Fauntleroy of that county, who by his will, dated 1750, left land to his son, Bushrod Fauntleroy of Cherry Point, on the Potomac, who had issue: 1, Elizabeth married Joseph Fauntleroy; 2. Griffin, major of Virginia Light Dragoons, in the Revolution, who was mortally wounded at the battle of Guilford, March 15, 1761; 3. John, died young; 4. Samuel, captain of a vessel lost at sea; 5. Anne, married 1768, Nathaniel Carpenter, collector of customs (f3); 6. Winifred; 7. Bushrod, married ---- Foushee."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 28-29, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "He had just been promoted from Captain to Major of Virginia Light Dragoons prior to the battle of Guilford Courthouse, and was killed in that battle March 15, 1781, at the age of 27. His heirs received a grant of 4000 acres of land as a bounty for his military services in the Revolution. It seems however that they received only that which was due a captain, and from 1835 to 1838 his nephew Thomas Turner Fauntleroy, who was himself a Major Of Dragoons in the U.S. Army, made several petitions to the Governor Of Virginia for the granting to the heirs of Major Griffin Fauntleroy of the bounty due them for his services as a major, claiming that the original grant was only for the rank of captain, and that it was not made to the rightful heirs. The petitions were rejected in 1840.
We find that in 1833 James Jones made an affidavit in King County before John Taliaferro, Justice of the Peace. He swears that Griffin Fauntleroy was for a considerable time Captain in Col. George Barlow's regiment of dragoons, that the said Jones was a private in the same regiment, that just prior to the battle of Guilford Courthouse Griffin Fauntleroy was promoted to major, and was killed in that battle, that every soldier in the regiment was attached to Major Fauntleroy, that he remembers well the fine chestnut-sorrel horse that Fauntleroy, rode into the battle of Guilford Courthhouse.
Col. Powell C. C. Fauntleroy, U. S. Army, has erected a monument in recent years on the spot where Major Griffin Fauntleroy was killed and a picture of it is in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography."
Lt. Leroy Dangerfield Fauntleroy
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 38, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "He lived in Fauquieer County, Va., and was commissioned a purser of the United States Navy by President Andrew Jackson. When General Kearney invaded California, Lt. Fauntleroy commanded a party of U. S. sailors which landed and formed into dragoons, and with them rendered very gallant and efficient service. He was one of the most famous marksman of his day, and once in a contest with English officers, in the Mediterranean, did such wonderful shooting that a diagram of his target was made and published in England. He participated in several extensive cruises in ships of the U. S. Navy, and died at age 54 with the rank of Lieutenant."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 38, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "Of yellow fever."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 38, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "of yellow fever."
General Thomas Turner Fauntleroy
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 37 & 86, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "He was an ensign in the Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, and took part in the battle of Bladensburg, later he was made lieutenant. He practiced law and edited a newspaper in Warrenton, Va., and was a member of the House of Delegates from Fauquier County 1823-24. He was captain of the Black Horse Troop of calvary of Fauquier County in 1834 which was the escort of President Andrew Jackson, by whom he was commissioned major of dragoons in the U. S. Army in 1836. He took part in the Seminole and Creek Wars in Florida, in many Indian campaigns in the West, and his regiment took several tribes of Indians west to the Indian Territory. He commanded many forts in the Far West, and built Fort Fauntleroy in New Mexico, the name of which was changed to Fort Wingate in 1862 after he had entered the Confederate service. He was lieutenant-colonel of the Second U. S. Dragoons 1846 and commanded calvary in the Mexican War at Monterey under General Zachary Taylor, and at Mexico City under General Winfield Scott. He was made colonel in 1860, and was Commander of the Depts. of Texas and of California in 1859, and of New Mexico in 1860.
The Virginia Legislature passed resolutions at the session of 1859-60 expressing its high estimate of Col. Fauntleroyus recent services against the Indians, and cited resolutions of the Legislature of New Mexico to the same effect. In 1861 he resigned from the U. S. Army, and was commissioned brigadier-general in the Confederate Virginia Provisional Army. He had trouble with Jefferson Davis while both were in the U. S. Army, and Davis would not assign him to active duty but kept him in command of troops around Richmond. Dissatisfied with this assignment, he resigned from the Confederate service and retired to a farm which he bought in Clarke County in 1862, located on the east bank of the Shenandoah above Castleman's Ferry. General Fauntleroy claimed he held in the U.S. Army the highest rank of any officer who resigned from that army to serve in the Confederate army."2Virginia Historical Magazine, The. Vol 1. Number 1. July 1891, Jefferson Wallace, Richmond, Virginia, pgs 6, 7. Copied by Sararh Yeiser Mason Heerman. "General Thomas T. and Ann (Magill) Fauntleroy had issue 1. Charles Magill, served with distinction as Lieutenant, United States Navy, and Captain Confederate States Navy, and in the Confederate army at one time as inspector-general of J. E. Johnston's army; married first Janet P. Knox (and had Janet Knox, married Powell Harrison, of Leesburg, Virginia), secondly Sally A. daughter of James T. Soutter, of Norfolk, and had no issue by this marriage; married thirdly Mary Elgee and had Fanny, born 1870, Alice J., born 1872, and Laura, born 1874. Captain Fauntleroy was executive officer of the Confederate States steamer, Nashville, and was her commander on her return voyage, when he ran her through the large blockade squadron and brought her into Beaufort with 80,000 stand of arms. He received commendation from General Johnston and Beauregard for his services at First Manassas; 2. Dr. Archibald M., a distinguished graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, assistant surgeon United States Navy, chief surgeon in charge of hospitals at Danville and Staunton, receiving distinguished mention in the United States Surgical History of the War, for many years superintendent of the Western Lunatic Asylum at Staunton; married Sally H., daughter of Robert Y. Conrad, of Winchester, and died June 19, 1886; 3. Nart Thruston, married Surgeon-General T. K. Barnes, United States Army; 4. Katherine Knox married Major J. H. Whittlessey, United States Army; 5. Thomas Turner, member of the House of Delegates from Frederick 1857-1858, Secretary of the Commonwealth 1879, now Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, married first, Ann, daughter of Philip Williams, secondly Elizabeth H. Hite."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 38, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "He was named for Major Lawson Butler, an officer of the Revolution who was an intimate friend of the family in Clarke County. He went to New Harmony, Ind. with his three brothers and his sister in 1827. In 1833 he moved to Clarksville, Tenn., and later to Kentucky, where he became a tobacco planter and lived near Paducah."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 38, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "He was named for Major Lawson Butler, an officer of the Revolution who was an intimate friend of the family in Clarke County. He went to New Harmony, Ind. with his three brothers and his sister in 1827. In 1833 he moved to Clarksville, Tenn., and later to Kentucky, where he became a tobacco planter and lived near Paducah."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 39, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "In 1827 he went to New Harmony, Ind., with his sister and three brothers. After the failure of the community sponsored by Robert Owen at New Harmony, he married the latter's daughter Jane Dale Owen in 1835. In 1840, he bought the house known as Number 53 of the Owen Community. This house, like all the others then at New Harmony, had been built by George Rapp and his followers, who had preceded Robert Owen, and who had emigrated to Harmony, Penn. from Germany and established a colony there, later moving west to this place on the Wabash River, which they called New Harmony. They were members of a religious sect, and were noted for their belief in cooperative hard work and the practice of celibacy. The house which they built and which Robert Henry Fauntleroy bought, became the central rallying point for a group of scientists, educators, and literary people who imparted to it a historical background. It is known as the "Old Fauntleroy Home" and is now owned, and, maintained as a museum by the State of Indiana."
2Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, P 82-83. "The three older brothers of Emily (Mrs. Joseph.) Fauntleroy left the New Harmony home of their sister to return to the South, but Robert Henry Fauntleroy, the youngest who was in somewhat delicate health, continued to reside in his sister's home until he was married. He was twenty-one years old at the time he came with his sister's family to New Harmony, having been born at "Greenville Plantation" in Clarke County, Virginia. His parents were Joseph and Elizabeth Fauntleroy. For the sake of keeping this somewhat intricate genealogy clear it may be reiterated here that he was a first cousin of his brother-in-law Joseph, and a great uncle of Mary Emily Fauntleroy.
He engaged in business in New Harmony on his own account and quickly exhibited peculiar traits of Fauntleroy genius. He was very ingenious, possessing a rare combination of scientific and artistic talents. He was an accomplished performer on violin and flute and had invented a special kind of organ. He wrote a book of dances, with appropriate calls and music, of which an original copy is now in the New Harmony library. A striking witness to his powers of analysis and concentration resides in the fact that he could play a game of chess blind-folded and retain all the moves in his head.
On March 23, 1835, he married Jane Dale Owen, the only daughter of Robert Owen to come to America. She writes: "I had a peculiar interest in his character from the first; it was purer and nobler than anyone whom I had ever met; his goodness, gentle reserve, and dignity were most agreeable to me". For a few years, they dwelt with the brothers of Jane Dale Owen in what was known as the "Mansion". In 1840, Fauntleroy bought the house of Oliver Evans, and, in this house, which soon became known as the Old Fauntleroy Home to distinguish it from other homes, Robert Henry Fauntleroy and Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy spent many happy years.
Fauntleroy remodelled the home, relieving in large measure the somewhat unimaginative design conferred upon it by the Rappites. Where the kitchen and other small rooms had adjoined the main part of the house, Fauntleroy divided the home and set the inferior part over in order to introduce a spacious central hall. He changed the main entrance from the north to the south and from the hall to the upper floors constructed a graceful colonial stairway, modelled after the ancestral home in Virginia. To make the home more commodious for the housing of a large family, he enlarged the second story.
A very close attachment existed between Jane Dale Owen and her brothers, particularly David Dale. It was through her marriage to Robert Henry Fauntleroy that the name of Owen became linked with that of the Old Fauntleroy Home. Two of her brothers, in the years that followed, dwelt with their families in the Old Fauntleroy Home. Robert Henry Fauntleroy's scientific bent found encouragement in the activities of his brothers-in-law, Richard. and David Dale, and he turned his attention to astronomy and meteorology. That he was the respected compeer of his talented brothers-in-law we are assured by tbis quotation from the Preface of Richard Owen's book, "Key Of the Geology of the Globe": "It may perhaps be deemed not irrelevant or egotistical to state briefly, that the writer had the advantage not only of intercourse with members of his family, but also with his talented brother-in-law, R. H. Fauntleroy".
For many years Robert Henry Fauntleroy was in the employ of the government, maintaining headquarters with Mr. David Dale Owen in the old fort of New Harmony, which, from a Rappite fortress and granary, was thus transformed into the center of scientific research west of the Alleghanies. On the top of the Old Fort still stands the weathervane designed by Robert Henry Fauntleroy an Indian swaying with a bow and arrow with the varying winds. An old covered bridge built over Gresham Creek and torn down only in the last few years was the last of five covered bridges constructed by Robert Henry Fauntleroy in Posey County. He also served as a surveyor of railroad routes. Quoting from "Divinely Led" by his daughter, Constance: "Here also, the geological corps met before taking the field, and those among the Coast Survey officers under the immediate supervision of my father, who was then chief of the astronomical department connected with the work".
Fauntleroy often lectured on astronomy in the public square at night. He would set up his telescope, and while he lectured, would permit the young folks to gaze through it at some luminous wanderer of the night sky.
In 1849, Robert Henry Fauntleroy was sent to the Gulf Of Mexico by the Government as an officer in the very important work of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He had not been there long when he was stricken with cholera and died Dec. 13 1849. So great was the esteem in which Fauntleroy was held by all those who knew him, that his assistants in the work in which he died took commerorative measures for their beloved companion."3Virginia Historical Magazine, The. Vol 1. Number 1. July 1891, Jefferson Wallace, Richmond, Virginia, pg 7. Copied by Sararh Yeiser Mason Heerman. "Robert Menry and Jane (Owen) Fauntleroy had issue: 1. Eleanor, married G. Davidson, of the United States Coast Survey; 2. Constance, married Rev. Mr. Runcie, of the Episcopal church; 3. Arthur, died at age of thirty."
4Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, P 39. "of the cholera."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 39, 83, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "Arthur rendered signal service during the Civil War in the examination of the channels and approaches to Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, and other Southern points, after which he took thorough training in civil engineering. He achieved distinction in this field, and performed his last service in the office of chief engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway in Milwaukee, where he died. An interesting account of his career was published in May 1885 in the Proceedings of the Engineers Club of Philadelphia, Vol. 5, No. 1. He was quiet, reserved, and studious; singularly pure and high-minded in character. Only in the society of very intimate friends did he show what his powers were ... So far as we can gather from his extensive range of professional friends, he never made a mistake in his work. This thoroughness was a trait of both his father and mother."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 39, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "He studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1830. He practiced medicine in Clarke County and Loudon County for many years.
Lived atr White Post, Clarke County, and here his children were born. The small brick building he used for his office still stands. In 1861 he joined the Confederate Army as a surgeon and served until 1863, when he was captured at the fall of Vicksburg. After the war he moved in 1865 to Leesburg, Va. where he died. He, his wife, and four of their children are buried in the cemetery at Middleburg, Va."2Virginia Historical Magazine, The. Vol 1. Number 1. July 1891, Jefferson Wallace, Richmond, Virginia, pg 7. Copied by Sararh Yeiser Mason Heerman. "Dr. John and Lavinia (Turner) Fauntleroy had issue: 1. Minna, married Augustine Loughborough of Leesburg; 2. Thomas Kinloch, entered the Confederate States Army as private in the cavalry. Mrs. Davis's recent book gives an amusing account of an interview between him and the President on the evening of First Manassas, which resulted in his securing a commission. He is now a Methodist preacher in Louisiana; 3. Elizabeth Randolph married Dr. Samuel McGill of Leesburg."
Edward Daingerfield Fauntleroy
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 40, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "killed when his horse ran away as he was coming home from school. Date from Frederick Parish record."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 36, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "He was very tall, handsome and striking looking, with perfect teeth. He lived first in Clarke County, VA. where his older children were born, then moved to Kentucky where the younger ones were born. He owned large flour mills on the Red River and near Bowling Green, Kentucky. He went to Covington, Louisiana, whre his wife died. He was a great hunter, was easy and kind to everyone, even to the point of lending money which was never returned."