Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Fort, Burwell Jackson April 6 1827 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   BURWELL JACKSON FORT was born and reared in Robertson county, Tenn., and came
to Alabama in 1818, locating near Bridges, Dallas county, in which county he
lived and died, devoting his life to planting. He died in October, 1836, at the
age of forty-eight years. His parents were among the early settlers in Robertson
county, Tenn. The ancestors of the Fort family in the United States are said to
have been French, and to have been banished from their native country for
political reasons. They settled in North Carolina, and one of the name was once
governor of that state. B. J. Fort married a Miss Charlotte E. Harrell, a native
of North Carolina. She bore her husband five sons and one daughter. She died in
Dallas county about 1869, at an advanced age. Of these sons, B. J. Fort, who
bears his father's full name, and who is a representative planter of Dallas
county, living at Bridges, or Marion Junction, as it is otherwise called, was
born April 6, 1827. He received a fair common school education, and early in
life adopted the occupation of farmer, and has followed it all his life, except
that of late years he has given special attention to stock raising, in which he
was a pioneer in Dallas county. He is now one of the largest stock raisers in
the county. He has never aspired to public life, but he has held the office of
justice of the peace a number of years. In politics he is a democrat. In 1846 he
married Miss Talitha A. Aveyt, who died in 1876, leaving eight children. In 1877
he married Miss Virginia F. Tabb. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, of
which he is an elder. He is a master Mason. Of his four sons, one, Frank A.
Fort, is a merchant at Shelby, Ala., while the other three, L. P., C. E., and T.
J. Fort, are merchants and planters at Bridges, or Marion Junction.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 866, 869
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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