Wh7 Elizabeth Thruston Whiting


    Wh7 Elizabeth Thruston Whiting was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Whiting Wh8 of Gloucester County, Virginia, and Elizabeth Thruston Th8
    Born-¬
    Married (first) October 13, 1782 to her first cousin John Thruston
    (second) June 18, 1805 to Colonel Aaron Fontaine (Fo7) in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
    Died 1822, July 2, Louisville, Kentucky. Buried back of the Fontaine home, (now Fontaine Ferry Amusement Park) between the house and the Ohio River.

    Children by her first marriage:

      (Th6-1) Mary Buckner Thruston b 14 Aug 1783 m Thomas January
      (Th6) Elizabeth Taylor Thruston m Patrick Henry Pope
      (Th6-3) Thomas Whiting Thruston b 6 Nov 1786 d 30 Aug 1808 m Mary Dorsey Luckett b 1788 d 3 Oct 1816 Louisville KY
      (Th6-4) Sarah Thruston b 8 Nov 1788
      (Th6-5) Catherine Thruston b 19 Sep 1790
      (Th6-6) Charles Minn/Mynn Thruston b 26 Feb 1793 Jefferson Co KY d 7 Jan 1854 , lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1854 m Eliza Sydnor Cosby b 1797 d 1841 dau of Hon. Fortunatus Cosby and Mary Ann Fontaine b 14 Oct 1778
      (Th6-7) Fanny Badello Thrustonb 7 Mar 1795
      (Th6-8) Alfred Thrustonb 16 Apr 1797, cashier of the Bank of Louisville in 1833
      (Th6-9) Lucino Falkland Thruston b 18 Jul 1799
      (Th6-10) Algernon Sydney Thruston b 19 May 1801, Attourney General of Texas, killed at the side of Davy Crockett in "The Alamo:"


    Children by her second husband Aaron Fontaine (Fo7):

      (Fo6-13) Alexander Madison Fontaine (1806 ¬ ) married x Delahunt, went to Texas.
      (Fo6-14) Henry Whiting Fontaine (1807 - 1839) married Susan Bryson, July 9, 1834.
      (Fo6-15) Emmeline Fontaine (1809 - ) married Patrick Dillon.
      (Fo6-16) Aaron Benjamin Fontaine, Jr. (1811 - 1902) married Mary Elliot of Dublin, Ireland.
    The descendants of the four above, were not known to Mrs. Nicholas (Ni3.5).

    Sources:
    Births - Thruston Reeords, Filson Club.
    Marriage - Jefferson County Marriages. Copy at Filson Club.
    Deaths - Thruston Records, Filson Club.

    In conclusion it may not be amiss to mention some of the members of this family who have achieved something more than a local reputation. Among the number whose names are recalled are Gen. George Cosby, C.S.A., of California; Admiral Frank Coast, U.S. Navy; Gen. Gates Thruston, U.S.A., Nashville, Tenn.; Admiral Levin Powell, U.S.N., Washington D.C., Algernon Thruston, ex - Attourney General, of Texas; Henry Rector, formerly Governor of Arkansas; Alfred Thruston, first cashier of the Bank of Louisville; Judge Buckner Thruston, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1805 to 1809; Patrick ... (Fontaine?), member of Congress from the ... district of Kentucky, and Charles .... Thruston, eminent as a lawyer in Louisville from 1800 to 1856.