John Stanley Fant

John Stanley Fant N E M V B TK Y Photo: Yes. Cd image is saved in E:\BHC Work Folder\Cavalryman Photos.[1264] Born: Around 1839 if 69 years old in 1908.[1265] Married: John Stanly Fant married Frances Rowena Payne on 1 November 1865 at “Raeburne”, Culpeper County. She was born 28 June 1836 in Culpeper County and died “28 May 1904 at her residence, 21 D Street, Washington, D. C.” [1266] Her parents were George Samuel Major Payne and Frances Merriman Fant.[1267] Died: Wednesday, 1 January 1908.[1268] Buried Bealeton Cemetery.[1269] # Check Obituary: “Mr. John S. Fant, of Fauquier county, died in Washington Wednesday.”[1270] See Obituary Chapter. Children: Five, “… Brooke, George, Romulyn, Fannie, and Andrew … .”[1271] “My wife informs me Lucy Fant’s middle name was Franklin not Fricklin as I said earlier.  I always thought my grandmother’s name (my father’s mother) was Fanny Ficklin Fant Haley.”[1272] “His daughter, Fanny Franklin Fant, married George Wilmer Haley on June 8, 1905, Washington, DC.” [1273] Parents and Siblings: Lucy Jane S. Franklin and John Merriman Fant, who had thirteen children.[1274] “[C]olonel John M. Fant … was the father of five very attractive daughters…”,[1275] who would have been John Stanley Fant’s sisters. Thomas Albert Fant[1276] [BH] and Joseph Nicholas Fant[1277] were brothers of John Stanley. “Children of John Merriman Fant and Lucy Jane S. Franklin” were: Josephine Anna, born 1831; Ada Weston, born 1833; William, born 1835; John S., born 1839, died 1907; Thomas Albert, born 1841, died 1835; Robertta, born 1844; Fannie Ficklin, born 1846; Alice Norton, born 1848; Franklin, born 1850; Joseph Nicholas, born 1852; Charles Carroll, born 1853; Andrew Livingston, born 1855; Clarence, born 1857.[1278] Other Family: John Stanly’s paternal grandfather, John Penn Fant (1776–1850), married Anne Payne (1783–after 1850) in 1802 in Spotsylvania County. Both died in Culpeper County. They had ten children.[1279] John Penn and Anne’s sixth child was John Merriman Fant (1812–1893), called Colonel Jack. He and Lucy (?–1883) married in 1834 in Fauquier County. They were John Stanly’s parents, and resided at “Melmer”, about five miles from Remington.[1280] John Penn and Anne’s seventh child was Newton Fant (1815 – after 1868). Newton’s daughter, Sallie, was a first cousin to John Stanly and his brother Thomas.[1281] She married Joseph Fant Payne [BH],[1282] who was another of their first cousins as well as John Stanly’s brother-in- law.[1283] Sallie and Joseph’s son, Howard, married one of Thomas’s daughters.[1284] John Penn and Anne’s ninth child was Frances Merriman Fant (1819–?).[1285] Frances Merriman Fant married George Samuel Major Payne (1814–1892) in 1837 at “Mountain View”, “the old Fant residence” in Culpeper County.[1286] Their six children were first cousins to John Stanly and Thomas. Their daughter, Frances Rowena Payne, married John Stanly Fant. Their son, Joseph Fant Payne [BH], married Sallie Brent Fant. George Richard Payne married Nellie Lovell Fant. Albert Washington Payne first married Mary Elizabeth Fant.[1287] (If Nellie & Mary aren’t sisters of John & Thomas, then delete two sentences.) John Stanly’s brother Joseph Nicholas Fant (1852–1893) married Mariana Beach Mears in 1882; their child Jessie married Joshua Evans, Jr., in 1914.[1288] John and Frances Rowena’s “daughter, Fanny Franklin Fant, married George Wilmer Haley on June 8, 1905, Washington, D.C. They had one son, George Gilbert Fant Haley [“born in 1908 in Washington, D.C.”[1289]] who married Anna Mary Finnin. They had [three] children, Patricia, Michael and Joyce.”[1290] Stories, Letters & Biographies: “Quite an excitement up town, the Black Horse are in full speed and the yankees are up the street.…”[1291] “In the early fall of 1862 a Federal colonel was [visiting the] home of colonel John M. Fant.…”[1292] See Stories Chapter under William F. Lee. Insert description of home from WPA book on Fauquier homes, p. 458. CSR: 6’1”, florid complexion, black hair, blue eyes; enlisted 25 April 1861; 22 years old; absent for horse July to August 1863; wounded 19 September 1863 Winchester; Scout for Genl. Wickham March to April 1864; wounded 1864; paroled 6 May 1865 Winchester; from Culpeper County. Additional Information: “Mr. Fant served during the Civil War in Co. H, 4th Va. Cavalry; wounded at Winchester 1863.”[1293] Wounded in 1864. Living in Routt’s Hill, Fauquier County, circa 1874–1878.[1294] Where did Lynn get “Stanley” with an “e”? If no source, make all “Stanly.” “1870 Census has John and Frances living in Warrenton, Fauquair [sic] County … 1880 Census has him living in Salem, Culpepper [sic] County”.[1295] One J. C. Fant, 26 September 1842–July 1885, Private, Buried Warrenton Cemetery.[1296] [NOTE:Same person?] “Are you sure the “S” in John Fant’s name stands for Stanley (Stanly)?  Somewhere in my research I came across the name Stansfield.” [1297]