Source: Wm. E. Railey, History of Woodford County, (Roberts Printing Co., Frankfort, KY, 1928), p 299: He was an officer of the guards under the regime of Louis the XIV, which position aided him and his wife, who was Countess Susanne La Vilion, and their relatives, the Fontains, the Subletts and the Trabues, to make their escape from France to Germany, where all remained for about 14 years, then migrated to America, where they settled in Virginia, many of them for only a brief period, then pushed westward over the vast empire that lay along, and even beyond the path blazed by Boone and his contemporaries."
