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George S. Fitzgerald was born in Stokes County, North Carolina on November 10, 1824, son of John Fitzgerald and Jane Sprattlen; he was the 8th child of 10, reared in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, where the family moved when George was 12 years of age. On December 12, 1849, he married Miss Sarah B. Pritchett (1829 - 1859); she died in Grayson County, Texas. His second marriage was on November 10, 1861, to Miss Fannie D., sister of his first wife.

In 1857 George S. Fitzgerald and Sarah and their 4 young children were among those forming a wagon train from Virginia to Grayson County, Texas in a covered wagon. They arrived in 1858 and settled near Savoy, north of Bells.
The home was located 3 miles north of Bells, Grayson Co., Texas and was situated on the Fitzgerald farm of 800 acres, a portion of which laid in the Red River bottom. George S. Fitzgerald started cutting oak trees on his farm land to build a home in 1859. In 1861, he joined Co. H of the Chickasaw Battalion, serving throughout the Civil War. Returning from the war, the oak logs were seasoned and he began construction of the family's home in 1866. He used oak trees from his farm near the Red River. The framing was of oak with hand hewn logs, fastened with wooden pegs in the absence of nails.
Sarah and Fannie's mother, Elizabeth M. Inge Pritchett, died in 1876 and is buried in Virginia Point Cemetery, Savoy, Fannin County, Texas along with her daughters and one son, as well as the her son-in-law and three of his children.