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Pen/pencil drawing of Joseph Fauntleroy. The letters along the left side may indicate the artist, but they cannot be read.""In 1827, Robert Henry Fauntleroy moved from Virginia to New Harmony, Indiana. There he married Jane Dale Owen, one of the five children of social reformer Robert Owen, who had purchased the town in 1825. As an engineer, Fauntleroy was awarded patents for two inventions. He was an Assistant in the U. S. Coast Survey, reporting directly to the Superintendent, at the time of his death. The name Fauntleroy is well known in modern New Harmony, and The Old Fauntleroy Home is visited by hundreds tourists each year. The home has been associated with several members of the Fauntleroy family, beginning with Robert Henry Fauntleroy, who bought the home from Oliver Evans, Jr., in 1840." (https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/rhfauntleroy.html) It is believed that the Joseph Fauntleroy pictured here was the brother-in-law of Robert Henry. Joseph had married his own first cousin, Emily Carter Fauntleroy, Robert Henry's sister.""Joseph-b. 1787, Mars Hill; d. 1832 at New Harmony, Indiana; m. Emily Carter Fauntleroy (first cousin; a dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth Foushee Fauntleroy; moved to New Harmony in 1827, attracted by the inducements of the Robert Owen movement and founding of New Harmony; were accompanied to New Harmony by four brothers of Emily Carter Fauntleroy ; namely, William Moore Fauntleroy, Laurence Butler Fauntleroy, Joseph Murdock Fauntleroy, and Robert Henry Fauntleroy. Joseph who married his cousin Elizabeth Foushee Fauntleroy, had eleven children, several of whom died young. Of the brothers of Emily Carter Fauntleroy, wife of Joseph Fauntleroy, coming to New Harmony, the record of Robert Henry Fauntleroy will be given." (https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/viewFile/7141/7996) NOTE: there are other Joseph Fauntleroy, but this one seems the most likely to be the man in the picture as he is the only Joseph Fauntleroy buried in New Harmony.

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