James Allen Latané

Born in Essex County, Virginia to the former Susanna Allen (1797-1878) and her husband Henry Waring Latané (1782-1860), he received a private education appropriate to his class.

William Latané (1833-1862) became the only fatality of JEB Stuart's well-publicized raid around Union General McClellan's army during the Peninsular Campaign.

John R. Thompson's poem about the event was published in Richmond, and painting about his interment in nearby Middlesex County, Virginia by William D. Washington became an important fundraiser during the conflict and eventually part of Lost Cause iconography.

[2] Lt. John Latané (1838-1864), who had also joined the Essex Light Dragoons of the 9th Virginia Cavalry, had arranged for his brother's burial, and himself died while imprisoned in Washington, D.C. and would be buried among the Confederate dead in Hollywood Cemetery in the state capitol.

[His twin, Lewis Latane (1838-1864) also died that year and has at least a burial marker in the St. Paul's Episcopal Church cemetery in Miller's Corner in Essex County.]

At least one daughter, Edith Latané, would remain with the Episcopal Church and helped found St. Margaret's School in Tappahannock in Essex County.