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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."
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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."
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. "lived first in Clarke County, Va. near "Greenville", and went with his sister and three brothers to New Harmony, Indiana in 1827. In 1833 he moved to Montgomery County, Tennessee and settled there on the Cumberland River. This was then the frontier. He built a home there called "Castle Carmichael". He became a man of wealth and a large slave owner. In 1858 he moved near Paducah, Ky."
2Lewis Hampton Jones, Jones, Captain Roger of London and Virginia, Louisville, Ky.: L.H. Jones, 1911. 442 p, Pg 175, FHL 1321070. "III. (52) Joseph Murdock Fauntleroy, who was born September 7th, 1791, married March 13th, 1820, Eliza Belfield Bowman, and died May 4th, 1868. He was an active member of the Baptist Church, was a man of wealth, of great refinement of tastes, of good intellectual attainments, and rare conversational powers. His wife was born March 14th, 1801, and died January 1st, 1856. She was a daughter of Capt. Isaac Bowman, of Shenandoah county, Virginia. Joseph was reared at Greenville; his wife, at Strasburg, Va. They lived on the Shenandoah river, near the old homestead, " Greenville," until the birth of four children, when they removed to near Clarksville, Tenn., and finally, just before the late war, they removed to Kentucky, and settled near Paducah. Their children were: (53) Mary Elizabeth Fauntleroy, who was born in Shenandoah county, Va., May 26th, 1823, and died in Christian county, Ky., January 6th, 1882. She married in Montgomery county, Tenn., January 16th, 1844, Jas. Thos. Garnett, who was born in Albemarle county, Va., December 7th, 1816, and died in Christian county, Ky., May 11th, 1883. They had children : (54) Jos. Fauntleroy Garnett, who was born December 16th, 1844; (55) Walter Faunt Le Roy Garnett, who was born January 8th, 1849, in Montgomery county, Tenn., and married February 3d, 1880, at the Baptist Church in Hopkinsville, Ky., Mary Wallace, born January 1st, 1861, daughter of Jas. A. and Cornelia Wallace, of that place, and they have children: (56) Leslie Wallace Garnett ; (5 7) Susie Wallace Garnett; (58) Mary Faunt Le Roy Garnett, and (59) Wallace Faunt Le Roy Garnett. (60) Emily Susan Fauntleroy, a daughter of (52) Jos. Murdock, was born March 12th, 1825, and died August 16th, 1826. (61) John Butler Fauntleroy, who was born February 26th, 1828, married Nannie Allensworth, of Todd county,."
1Lewis Hampton Jones, Jones, Captain Roger of London and Virginia, Louisville, Ky.: L.H. Jones, 1911. 442 p, Pg 177, FHL 1321070.
1Lewis Hampton Jones, Jones, Captain Roger of London and Virginia, Louisville, Ky.: L.H. Jones, 1911. 442 p, Pg 177, FHL 1321070.
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. "lived first in Clarke County, Va. near "Greenville", and went with his sister and three brothers to New Harmony, Indiana in 1827. In 1833 he moved to Montgomery County, Tennessee and settled there on the Cumberland River. This was then the frontier. He built a home there called "Castle Carmichael". He became a man of wealth and a large slave owner. In 1858 he moved near Paducah, Ky."
2Lewis Hampton Jones, Jones, Captain Roger of London and Virginia, Louisville, Ky.: L.H. Jones, 1911. 442 p, Pg 175, FHL 1321070. "III. (52) Joseph Murdock Fauntleroy, who was born September 7th, 1791, married March 13th, 1820, Eliza Belfield Bowman, and died May 4th, 1868. He was an active member of the Baptist Church, was a man of wealth, of great refinement of tastes, of good intellectual attainments, and rare conversational powers. His wife was born March 14th, 1801, and died January 1st, 1856. She was a daughter of Capt. Isaac Bowman, of Shenandoah county, Virginia. Joseph was reared at Greenville; his wife, at Strasburg, Va. They lived on the Shenandoah river, near the old homestead, " Greenville," until the birth of four children, when they removed to near Clarksville, Tenn., and finally, just before the late war, they removed to Kentucky, and settled near Paducah. Their children were: (53) Mary Elizabeth Fauntleroy, who was born in Shenandoah county, Va., May 26th, 1823, and died in Christian county, Ky., January 6th, 1882. She married in Montgomery county, Tenn., January 16th, 1844, Jas. Thos. Garnett, who was born in Albemarle county, Va., December 7th, 1816, and died in Christian county, Ky., May 11th, 1883. They had children : (54) Jos. Fauntleroy Garnett, who was born December 16th, 1844; (55) Walter Faunt Le Roy Garnett, who was born January 8th, 1849, in Montgomery county, Tenn., and married February 3d, 1880, at the Baptist Church in Hopkinsville, Ky., Mary Wallace, born January 1st, 1861, daughter of Jas. A. and Cornelia Wallace, of that place, and they have children: (56) Leslie Wallace Garnett ; (5 7) Susie Wallace Garnett; (58) Mary Faunt Le Roy Garnett, and (59) Wallace Faunt Le Roy Garnett. (60) Emily Susan Fauntleroy, a daughter of (52) Jos. Murdock, was born March 12th, 1825, and died August 16th, 1826. (61) John Butler Fauntleroy, who was born February 26th, 1828, married Nannie Allensworth, of Todd county,."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, pg 23, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "Emily Carter Fauntleroy, born at "Greenville" in 1793, died 1868. She married her cousin, Joseph Fauntleroy, and moved to New Harmony in 1827. They took their eight children and four of her brother with them."
1Robert H. Fauntleroy, Fauntleroy Family, The, Microfilm published: Washington, 1952, P 20, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL 1318331 Item 3. "was an eminent physician of Tappahannock and a member of the House of Delegates from Essex County from 1820 to 1824."