George Washington Albritton and Sarah Ann Fowler, Union Parish, LA
submitted by: Tim Hudson

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GEORGE WASHINGTON ALBRITTON & SARAH ANN FOWLER

George Washington Albritton was born in Wilkinson Co GA in 1810, the son of Enoch Albritton
and Penelope Frizzle. Enoch and Penelope had both been born in Pitt Co NC in 1771 and 1772,
respectively. They married there about 1792/1793, but left NC in 1806/1807 and moved to
Georgia. Sometime after 1820, Enoch moved his family west to Wilcox Co AL, probably in
1821/1822. They settled near the village of Snow Hill. 

Enoch purchased a farm in Snow Hill and lived near his grown sons Allen, John, and Silas, as well
as daughter Lavincy Albritton Lee and her husband Martin B. Lee, and perhaps other married
daughters. Enoch Albritton died there in 1834 and was buried in the old Snow Hill Cemetery.
Afterwards, during the remainder of the 1830s, George and his mother lived together, as all of
Penelope's other children had married. In 1836 George purchased government land in adjoining
Conecuh County, but there is no indication that he ever lived there; in 1840 he was still living in
Snow Hill with his mother, and other records indicate that he resided there during the 1840s.

About 1842, George W. Albritton married a daughter of Richard and Sarah Fowler. The Fowlers
moved to Alabama in 1818 from Columbus Co NC. Their eldest daughter was Elizabeth, born in
1813, and their fourth daughter was Milly (Amelia?), born in 1817. It is not clear which of these
daughters George W. Albritton married in 1842, but one of them became his wife and the mother
of his two eldest sons. However, shortly after the second son was born in 1846, the first wife
died, perhaps in childbirth. In 1847, George W. Albritton moved with his brother-in-law Noah
Scarborough and sister Lavincy Albritton Lee to Union Parish LA. It appears his sons remained in
Alabama, perhaps with his mother Penelope Albritton. But in late 1849, George returned to
Wilcox Co AL and in January 1850, he married the sister of his first wife, Sarah Ann Fowler.
Sarah Ann had been born in 1823, Monroe or Clarke Co AL. Shortly afterwards, they moved
back to Union Par LA with his sons and his mother, Penelope Frizzle Albritton.  George
Washington Albritton was a Primitive Baptist and probably a member of Liberty Hill Primitive
Baptist Church. He was too old to serve in the army during the War for Southern Independence,
but his eldest son Enoch Richard Albritton served in both the Confederate Army and Cavalry.

George W. Albritton died in 1867 and was buried in the Liberty Hill/Taylor Cemetery. Sarah Ann
Fowler Albritton only lived a few more years, as she died in 1875. All of the Albrittons living in
eastern Union Parish LA descend from George Washington Albritton and Sarah Ann Fowler
Albritton (the descendents of G. W. Albritton's first Fowler wife remaining in Union Parish LA
don't have the Albritton surname).


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Sources:
I wrote this brief biography based upon my own personal research into the Albritton family
together with family records given to me by my late grandmother Fabrice Boatright Hudson. In
particular, I have utilized these sources:

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