Enoch Albritton and Penelope Frizzle, Union Parish, LA
submitted by: Tim Hudson

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ENOCH ALBRITTON & PENELOPE FRIZZLE

Enoch Albritton was born in 1771, Pitt County North Carolina. Family tradition has that Enoch
was the son of James Albritton, Jr. and Mary Arnett. This is supported by the process of
elimination (James Jr.'s nephews are all known), but no proof has yet been found that gives the
children of James Albritton, Jr. The Albrittons were a very early settler of the Pitt County NC
area; James Albritton, Sr. arrived in that area that later became Pitt County in the 1730s.

Penelope Frizzle was born 27 Jan 1772, near the present-day community of Rountree Crossroads,
near Little Contentney Creek in southwestern Pitt County North Carolina. She was the daughter
of John Frizzle and Mary Rountree. John Frizzle was born about 1717, probably in Virginia. He
fought in the French and Indian War of 1746 (King George's War), serving with the Virginia
militia in Canada. He arrived in Pitt County between 1762 and 1764 and married Mary Rountree
about 1770.

Enoch and Penelope married in 1792 or 1793 in Pitt County. They bought a farm there and by
1806 had a large family of children. In 1806 they sold their farm and left North Carolina. They
settled in Wilkinson County Georgia. Little is known about their life in Georgia, as the counties
they lived in, Wilkinson and Twiggs, both have suffered courthouse fires.

About 1821 or 1822, Enoch and Penelope moved from Twiggs County Georgia to Wilcox
County Alabama, settling near the village of Snow Hill. Enoch was a constable for Wilcox County
in 1833. They were probably members of Bethsaida Primitive Baptist Church in Snow Hill.

Enoch Albritton died in 1834 and was buried in the Snow Hill Cemetery. By this time, all of
Enoch and Penelope's children had married except for their youngest son, George Washington
Albritton. He continued to live with his mother Penelope until he married in about 1842.

Between 1845 and 1849, a severe drought plagued most of Georgia and Alabama, and thousands
of people left their homes and moved west. Probably for this reason, many Snow Hill residents
left Alabama in 1847 and moved to Union Parish Louisiana. George Washington Albritton and his
sister Lavincy Albritton Lee and her husband Martin B. Lee all moved to Louisiana in 1847. G.
W. Albritton was a widower, and he left his two young sons in Alabama. He returned to Snow
Hill in late 1849, remarried, and returned to Union Parish with his new wife and sons.

By mid 1850, Penelope Frizzle Albritton was living with her children in Union Parish Louisiana. It
is now known if she accompanied them to Louisiana in 1847, or if she came later. It is also not
know how long she remained in Union Parish. By 1860, she was again living in Snow Hill with
her granddaughter. This is the last known record of her. I believe that due to her age (she was 88
years old in 1860) and the war, she remained in Alabama and died there, probably buried next to
Enoch in the Snow Hill Cemetery.


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Sources:
I wrote this brief biography based upon my own personal research into the Albritton family,
utilizing in particular these sources:

+++ the court records of Pitt Co NC
+++ the court records of Wilcox Co AL
+++ the court records of Union Parish LA
+++ US census records
+++ National Archives records
+++ family Bible records