Ann COMER
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1.  Monte Comer SHANNON
2.  William Guy "Bill" SHANNON
3.  Robert Stanton "Bob" SHANNON
4. +Cindy SHANNON
5. +Melissa SHANNON

Lemuel COOK
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 _Ed COOK _____________|
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|--Lemuel COOK 
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|                                                 _Lemuel LASSITER ____+
|                                                | (1800 - 1881) m 1820
|                       _Joseph P. LASSITER _____|
|                      | (1825 - 1901) m 1845    |
|                      |                         |_Susanna HAMLIN _____
|                      |                           (.... - 1881) m 1820
|_Susan Jane LASSITER _|
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                       |                          _A. P. HODGES _______
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                       |_Sarah Elizabeth HODGES _|
                         (1829 - 1906) m 1845    |
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William Winston FONTAINE , Col.
25-NOV-1786 - NOV 1816

• BIRTH: 25-NOV-1786, Henry Co, VA
• DEATH: NOV 1816, South of Abingdon, VA

• REFERENCE: See Source

• MARRIAGE: 16-JAN-1810, Goochland Co, Virginia

1. +William Spotswood FONTAINE
2. +Patrick Henry FONTAINE
3.  Ann FONTAINE

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 _Col. John FONTAINE _|
| (1750 - 1792) m 1774|
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|--William Winston FONTAINE , Col.
|  (1786 - 1816)
|                                            _John HENRY __________
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|                      _Patrick HENRY Gov.__|
|                     | (1736 - 1799)       |
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|_Martha HENRY _______|
  (.... - 1818) m 1774|
                      |                      _John SHELTON , Capt._+
                      |                     | (1713 - 1777) m 1727 
                      |_Sarah SHELTON ______|
                        (1738 - 1775)       |
                                            |_Eleanor PARKS _______
                                              (.... - 1738) m 1727 

[2463] Born at "Leatherwood," his father's plantation. Died of pneumonia returning from a trip to Alabama where he was scouting out land where he intended to move his family. He was buried in a woods by his slave.WILLIAM WINSTON FONTAINE (1786-1816) was born on his father's "Leatherwood" Plantation in HenryCounty, Virginia, and taken as an infant by his parents to their "Locust Grove" plantation in Prince Edward County,Virginia. They lived there until 1791 when they returned to "Leatherwood". William grew to manhood in Henry County,where he learned the craft of surveying, as his father and grandfather had before him. Although he spent some of his timeas a surveyor, William devoted most of his efforts as a young man to cultivation of tobacco on the farm of six hundredacres which he inherited from his father. The land, located along the Little Marrowbone Creek in Ridgeway communityIn Henry County, was a portion of the "Leatherwood" plantation.