~ received a Marriage License & Married Susan E. Bryson on 8 July 1834 and was married by Edward Stevenson
~ By 1837 he was practicing law in Houston with Algernon Sidney Thruston, his half brother.
~ In 1838 Henry Whiting Fontaine was appointed district judge for the Second Judicial District, which automatically made him an associate justice of the supreme court of the Republic. He served in the position until his death.

~ Henry & Susan had three children: Clifford, Henry & Sidney

Sources:
* Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007: Bible Records ~ Card Index
* 'Huguenot Emigration to Virginia': Descendants of John De La Fontaine
* Justices of Texas (1836 - 1986)
* Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954 Marriage Register 2 Page 134 Image # 00477

- Descended on his father's side from Henry de la Fontaine, of French Huguenot history,
Judge Henry Whiting Fontaine and Susan Elizabeth Bryson, who were natives of Kentucky, married in Louisville, that State, in 1837, and moved shortly afterward to Texas, settling at Houston, where the Henry died in 1840, being at the time Judge of the District Court. He left three children a son, Sydney T Fontain, a son, Captain (C. S. A.) Henry Bryson Fontaine, and a daughter, Clifford Nepp Fontaine. Captain Fontaine married the only sister of General Bedford Forrest, of Confederate fame, and is now living with his family at Dallas, Texas, being a lawyer by profession, but having followed mercantile pursuits most of his life. Clifford Nepp Fontaine was married in 1855, at Galveston, Texas, to Colonel Henry N. Potter, a prominent lawyer who, with his brother, Milton M. Potter, was identified with the early history of Texas, dying at Galveston, as did also his wife. Judge Henry Whiting Fontaine was accompanied to Texas by his half-brother, Algernon Thurston, who subsequently became Attorney General of the Republic, and was a lawyer of prominence. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895),
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