Benjamin Lincoln Meade

He married Eliza Hardaway, of Powhatan County, Virginia on February 10th, 1819. Some of their children were: 1. Richard Hardaway Meade, born in Powhatan County, Virginia, in January 1831 and died in September 1880. He was reared in the locality of his birth, as a boy taking up the business of life in Richmond, employed as clerk in a drug store. This early association determined his future activity, for with the knowledge and experience thus gained as a foundation, he formed the firm of Meade and Baker, dealers in drugs, and continued a leading member thereof until his death. His life was short, forty-nine years, but because of the early age at which he assumed manly duties and responsibilities, his useful activities covered the average period of time and he played well his part in life. During the War Between the States he was a member of the "House Guard." He married Jane Catherine Fontaine, born in Hanover County, Virginia, daughter of Colonel Edmund Fontaine and Louisa Shackleford, his wife, maternal granddaughter of James and Elizabeth (Dabney) Shackleford, and paternal granddaughter of Colonel William Fontaine and Anna Morris, his wife. Colonel William Fontaine was a member of Washingtons' staff and witnessed the surrender at Yorktown; he was a descendant of John de la Fontaine, the French martyr. Colonel Edmund Fontaine gained his military rank of colonel in the Confederate States Army, and became a citizen of note, being first president and founder of a railroad from Richmond to Charlotteville, now embraced in the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

Children of Richard Hardaway and Jane Catherine (Fontaine) Meade: Lila, married Benjamin B. Valentine, and was president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia; (2)Richard Hardaway, (3)Louise Fontaine, married Clarence P. Cadot, of Richmond, Virginia; (4)Kate Fontaine, resided in Richmond, Virginia; Marianne Everard, lives in Richmond, Virginia.