BIO: Martin Fitzgerald, Hart County, KY

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Martin Fitzgerald, San Diego, CA, was born in the Mammoth Cave region of Ky., March 24, 
1902, the seventh child of William and Molly Doyel Fitzgerald.  William Fitzgerald was born 
in Sullivan Co., TN on June 30, 1861 to James  and Lydia Galloway Fitzgerald and died 
October 23, 1926 in KY. Molly Doyel  was the oldest child of Dr. Sutton Doyel, the son of 
Samuel and Mary Combs  Doyel, and his wife Amanda Alice Tinsley, the daughter of James M. 
and  Lucinda Quiesenbury Nichols. 

Martin lived his childhood in the Mammoth Cave region of KY where he  attended Little Jordan 
Baptist Church and school. He was an officer in the  CCC and later machinest in the Navy. He 
carried on a long family tradition  of metal working in San Diego, CA where he moved in the 
early 1940's.  Martin remained in San Diego until his death April 29, 1967. His body was 
returned to Hart Co, and is buried in the Munfordville Cemetery,  Munfordville, KY. 

He married first, Edna Louise Brooks on January 11, 1925 in IL. They had one daughter, 
Marian Frances Fitzgerald born March 15, 1926. Second, he married  Thelma Puckett, August 
13, 1939, McHenry, IL. By this marriage he had two  children, Thomas Martin and Charlotte 
Jean. 

Thelma Puckett was born March 06, 1910 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. She was the 
daughter of Asbury Clifton Puckett August 3, 1880 - August 4,  1955 Hart Co., KY and Georgie 
Etta Cosby Puckett November 16, 1884 -  April 13, 1960. Asbury was the son of David Crockett 
and Delilah Hazelip  Puckett. Georgie Etta was the daughter of Samuel Harrison and Joannah 
Dorsey Cosby. 

Thelma was a member of Carlisle Baptist Church, Louisville KY. She worked for Dunn and 
Bradstreet in Louisville, KY. Later after returning from San Diego,  CA in 1948, was the 
postmistress for Kessinger, KY where she remained until  her death on October 18, 1965.