FITZHUGH, George N., Fauquier County, VA., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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GEORGE N. FITZHUGH, WASHINGTON.--George N. Fitzhugh was born in Fauquier
county, Virginia, October 29, 1873.  The Fitzhugh family is an old and
prominent one in the United States.  The first of the family in this country
were two brothers of that name (wealthy lawyers) who came from England to
Virginia in Cromwell's time; and all the Fitzhugh family in America, so far as
known, are their descendants.  George N. Fitzhugh's paternal grandmother (who
was a Digg) was a full cousin of William H. Harrison's father.  His paternal
grandmother was a niece of George Washington.

Our subject is the son of Henry and Henrietta Fitzhugh, both natives of
Virginia.  He was reared and received his education in Virginia.  He has a
brother and a sister who now own a part of the original estate of George
Washington, at Ravensworth, now West Virginia.  Colonel Fitzhugh's father was
a farmer.  He was an unassuming although a very worthy citizen.  He died on
his estate at Ravensworth at an advanced age.  His mother died in the year
1882, at Charleston, West Virginia, at the age of ninety-two years.

The subject of our sketch was reared on a farm and has followed farming during
most of his lifetime. He married, in 1849, Miss Sarah Kemp, of Fauquier
county, Virginia.  In June, 1861, at the beginning of the war, he enlisted in
Company E, Twenty-sixth Virginia Infantry, and was appointed by General Wise,
quartermaster, which  position he only held a short while, resigning and
taking his former place in his regiment, where he served about eighteen
months, when, as his health was so impaired that he was unlisted for active
service, he was again appointed quartermaster, in which capacity he served
until 1864, when, being of the proper age, he was granted an honorable
discharge.  His duties were so faithfully discharged that General Sam. Jones
said of him that he was the most competent quartermaster in the whole army.
After leaving the army he was for about a year engaged in the mercantile
business at Blacksburg, Virginia, in which he was very successful.  Had the
currency been of current value, instead of Confederate States money, he would
have been wealthy.  In the year 1870, in partnership with his brother, T. B.
Fitzhugh, he purchased a large sugar plantation near St. Martinsville, but
unfortunately lost it through a defective title.  Since that time he has
resided in St. Martinsville, New Iberia, and, in 1887, he removed to
Washington, where he has lived a retired life, his circumstances being such as
to render an active business life unnecessary to one of his advanced age.  He
is the father of one child, Kate, the wife of Mr. P. J. Russell. Mr. Fitzhugh
and family are all members of the Episcopal church.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 41.
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company.