Pike County Alabama News.....Capt. Bird Fitzpatrick January 25 1881
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Patsy McCoy pmccoy@pacifier.com April 18, 2004

The Montgomery Advertiser
The Union Springs Journal of last week contains the following sketch of an 
old Alabamian, Capt. Bird FITZPATRICK, who died in Union Springs last July.  
Capt. FITZPATRICK was a brother of Governor FITZPATRICK:

Capt. Bird FITZPATRICK was born in Greene County, Georgia in 1798.  With five 
brothers he came to Alabama in 1818, one year before the state was admitted 
into the Union, and settled at the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers, 
now Elmore County.  After some years, he moved to Lowndes County, where, in 
December 1825 he married Miss Dorothy GRAVES, daughter of William GRAVES, after 
whom Graves' Landing on the Alabama River is named.  Afterwards he moved to 
Pike County, and lived for some time near Old Monticello… In 1831 he moved to 
Macon County and settled on the place in the prairies where he lived years… 
Captain FITZPATRICK had served as a soldier in what was known as Jackson's war… 
In 1837, he built one of the three first houses ever erected in this place, and 
in this house his eldest daughter, Martha, was married to the late W.C. 
THOMPSON, which was the first marriage ever solemnized in Union Springs… In 
1855, the beloved wife of his early manhood died, after a happy companionship 
of 36 years.  He afterwards married Miss Mary J. WRIGHT, of Montgomery, and 
upon her death some years ago, he was joined in holy wedlock with Mrs. Susan 
TERRELL,of Lowndes County, who still survives him… He was a life-long Democrat 
of the Jackson school…

Additional Comments:
Death Notices From The Montgomery Advertiser
-Transcribed by Larry E. Caver, Jr.
Thanks Larry for sharing
Patsy