DR. FOUNTAIN G. MC DONALD aka PETER MC DONALD is a very elusive person. This is my great-grandfather. Family tradition has it that he got into trouble (killed a man in a tavern brawl) in Virginia (where he was born) and left for LA. He had been going to medical school in Virginia and supposedly finished in LA (which sounds fishy) but I have checked with Tulane and there is no record of him nor on the list of Deceased Physicians of the AMA. I have yet to check schools in Virginia. His guardian was supposed to be the governor of a southern state but we don't know which one. We don't know whether any of this is true or the result of the McDonald's vivid imagination. My daddy swore up and down that it was true! I have found him only on one census - 1850 Houston County, TX census listed as Dr. Fountain G. McDaniel and he is also listed as one of the heirs in his mother-in-law's agreement between her and her heirs which is in the Natchitoches Parish Courthouse and there he is listed as Fountain G. McDonald. He just disappears around 1865 from all lists that I know of. He and CAROLINE E. CARROLL born in LA married and they had two children: JOSEPH CLARK MC DONALD married MATILDA JEANETTE (JENNIE) WEBB (these are my grandparents.) LOUISIANA MC DONALD married JOHN BURGAY CAROLINE CARROLL married for the second time to (hold on to your hats!) the father of her daughter-in-law JENNIE WEBB. His name was MEREDITH E. WEBB. There were no children - he was 30 years older than she. I hope someone can shed some light on FOUNTAIN MC DONALD. I have information on all the rest which I'll gladly share. Thank you! Shirley