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Below is a family biography included in the book, The History of Lauderdale County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Peter Fitzpatrick, a venerable farmer, who was a pioneer of Lauderdale County, is a son of Edmund and Nancy (Oliver) Fitzpatrick. The father was born in Pittsylvania County, Va.; the mother in Charlotte County, Va. They were married about 1785. Four of the eleven children born to this marriage—our subject and three sisters—are living. The mother belonged to the Primitive Baptist Church. The father was a Democrat, and died in his sixty-sixth year, the mother living eight years after his death. Our subject is of Scotch-Irish descent, and was born in Charlotte County, Va., April 18, 1805; was raised on a farm and well educated. December 24, 1828, he married Miss Elizabeth Bruce, who was born in Charlotte County, Va., March 10, 1810. Nine children were the result of this union—two sons and a daughter now living: William H., born December 28, 1844; John B., born January 28, 1848, and Susan A., born in 1830 (she married T. L. Clark in 1846); Edward N., born October 6, 1829, died February 14, 1876, a magistrate of Lauderdale County, and a very prominent and successful farmer; Capt. Peter J., born October 27, 1833, killed at the battle of Perryville, Ky. — was a talented and prominent young man, holding the rank of captain in the Confederate Army from Tennessee. Mr. Fitzpatrick and wife came to Lauderdale County in 1847, settling two miles from Henning, Tenn., where he still lives. Mrs. Fitzpatrick was a member of the Baptist Church, and died August 18, 1851. In politics Uncle Peter, as he is familiarly called, is an emphatic Democrat. He has been a citizen of Lauderdale County for thirty-nine years, and has been a farmer all of his life. He owns 844 acres of good land, and is widely known all over the county, and affectionately esteemed as a kind-hearted, venerable man.

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This family biography is one of 116 biographies included in the book,  The History of Lauderdale County, Tennessee published in 1886 by Goodspeed.  The History of Lauderdale County was included within The History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties, Tennessee

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