Evan Burrows Fontaine

EvanBurrows Fontaine was an American Denishawntrained interpretive dancer and actress whose career suffered after she became entangled in a breach of promise lawsuit with a member of one of Americas wealthiest families.

EvanBurrows Fontaine was born on October 3, 1898 at Huron, Texas, a present day ghost town with the Cedar Creek Baptist Church as its last surviving structure. She was the daughter of William Winston Spotswood Fontaine, an accountant who would later become general manager of the Alamo Cottonseed Company and Florence West Evans, the daughter of a Dallas life insurance agent. Her family later moved to Dallas, where by the turn of the twentieth century they were boarders at a rooming house owned by her maternal grandparents. Fontaines paternal 3rd greatgrandmother was Martha Henry, daughter of American Founding Father, Patrick Henry. Her grandfather, William Winston Fontaine, served in the American Civil War as a colonel under Confederate generals, Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart. After the war he taught at Baylor Female College in Independence, Texas and later held the chair of Latin for a decade at the University of Texas. Not much is known here about Fontaines early life except th

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