Martha Delila Pigg
March 4, 1826 Maury County, TN - 1896 Edna, Jackson County, TX

Married October 8, 1844, Maury County, Tennessee

Children:
Nancy Jane Fitzgerald - August 15, 1847 Maury County, TN - 1920 Tennessee
     Married Henry Crocket Wilson, Sr.
Rebecca A. Fitzgerald - September 14, 1849 Maury County, TN - 1925 Zavalla, Angelina County, TX
Thomas H. Fitzgerald - February 23, 1853 Maury County, TN - August 1, 1854 Maury County, TN
Sarah Elizabeth Fitzgerald - May 10, 1955 Maury County, TN - September 2, 1855 Maury County, TN
James J. Fitzgerald - February 23, 1857 Maury County, TN - Montague County, TX
Sarah Dean "Sallie" Fitzgerald - May 10, 1859 Maury County, TN - October 16, 1932 Jackson County, TX
     Married Julius Johns
Martha L. "Pattie" Fitzgerald - March 4, 1862 Maury County, TN - Before 1900 TX
     Married Hiram B. Rickman
Margaret Elizabeth "Maggie" Fitzgerald - June 15, 1866 Maury County, TN - July 30, 1943 Edna, Jackson County, TX
     Married Frank Belschner
 

Capt. Patrick L. Fitzgerald
Jackson County Pioneer Settler

Patrick L. Fitzgerald was born April 4, 1825. He moved to Texas from Tennessee and settled on a farm in Lavaca County. He lived here several years and moved to Jackson County to the Blair community. Here he bought a home which is still in possession of his grandson, Emil Johns.

He stayed with the old methods of farming by using a walking plough known as “Alabama Lizard” and planted corn by hand. He preferred oxen for ploughing and hauling goods.

He and his neighbors bought their groceries at Columbus. They only made one or two trips a year and it took a week to make. They bought the groceries in large quantities, coffee by the sack, flour and sugar by the barrels. He bought cloth for clothes for his family at two to five cents per yard.

He had no trouble in securing meat for his family. The woods and prairies were full of wild beeves and hogs, as well as deer. He built hog traps to catch wild hogs when he wished fresh meat. He kept a few tame hogs that he turned out with the old hogs, then drove them all into the hog trap. Capt. Patrick L. Fitzgerald merited his name but no one knew how. It seems that no one can furnish many facts in regard to his life. It is now known when he died.

Biography & photo at top from The Cavalcade of Jackson County, by I. T. Taylor, Third Edition, Pages 378-379
Used by permission of the Jackson County Historical Commission
 

1870 Federal Census

Tennessee - Hickman - District 1 - July 5, 1870
105-105
Fitzgerald, P. L., 45 M W, Farmer, b TN
Fitzgerald, Martha, 44 F W, House Keeper, b TN
Fitzgerald, J. Q., 13 M W, b TN
Fitzgerald, M. L., 9 F W, b TN
Fitzgerald, M. E., 4 F W, b TN
 

1880 Federal Census

Texas - Montague - Precinct 6 - June 25th, 1880
274-274
Fitzgerald, Patrick L., W M 54, [head], TN VA NC
Fitzgerald, Martha D., W F 54, wife, TN VA NC
Fitzgerald, James J., W F 23, son, TN TN TN
Fitzgerald, Marget E., W F 13, daughter, TN TN TN
Simons, Ole K., W M 35, farming, KY VA __
 

1900 Federal Census

Texas - Jackson - Justice Precinct 4 - June 27, 1900
175-175
Fitzgerald, L. P. [P. L.], Head, W M born Apr 1925, age 75, widowed, TN
Jahns, Sallie, Daughter, W F born May 1859, age 41, widowed, two children-two living, TN
Jahns, Emeal, Grandson, W M born Apr 1888, age 12, single, TN
Jahns, John, Grandson, W M born May 1890, age 10, single, TN
Richman, Mattie, Granddaughter, W F born Jan 1880, age 20, single, TX
Richman, John, Grandson, W M born Mar 1882, age 18, single, TX
Barry, Gray, Grandson, W M born May 1881, age 19, single, TX
Barry, Lum, Grandson, W M born Jun 1885, age 14, single, MS
 

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