Penelope FRIZZLE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Frizzell and Mary Rountree
• Census: 1850, Living with Martin B. Lee family in Union Parish, Louisiana

Penelope married Enoch ALBRITTON in 1794. Enoch was born in 1771 in Black Jack, Pitt County, North Carolina; died on 14 Feb 1834 in Snow Hill, Wilcox Co., Alabama; was buried in Old Snow Hill Cemetery, Snow Hill, Wilcox Co., Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with husband in Union Parish, Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Living with husband in Union Parish, Louisiana

Notes:

Name:
Levincy Albritton was born on the Cow Swamp plantation in Pitt County North Carolina where her grandfather, Peter Albritton, Sr., and great-grandfather, James Albritton, Sr., had farmed since about 1756. Her father sold his portion of the Albritton plantation in 1802 and briefly lived elsewhere in Pitt County before moving to Laurens County Georgia about 1807 or 1808. The Albrittons moved into the adjoining Wilkinson County about 1815, and Levincy married there on 5 May 1817 to Martin Batte Lee (22 Apr 1798?28 Mar 1884), son of Cato Lee (1757?26 Sept 1832) and Nancy Holland (1760?19 Oct 1838). Levincy and Martin lived near her father in Wilkinson County Georgia in 1820, and apparently during the winter of 1821?1822, they moved to Alabama, soon settling with their relatives at Snow Hill, Wilcox County Alabama.

Upon their arrival at Snow Hill, Lees and Albrittons settled north of the village, on tracts of vacant land that lay between Snow Hill and the Wilcox/Dallas County line, located about 2.5 miles to the north. Levincy and Martin soon settled on a tract of land located on the Dallas County side of the county line and put it into cultivation. The 1830 Federal Census lists them as Dallas County residents, along with their neighbors Richard Fowler and Addison Scarborough. In the mid-1830s, Levincy and Martin sold their 240-acre farm in Dallas County and moved closer to Snow Hill, in Wilcox County. Martin B. Lee joined the Bethsaida Primitive Baptist Church at Snow Hill and served the church as a deacon; Levincy presumably belonged to the church as well.

In 1845 and 1846, Levincy and Martin's children began selling their Snow Hill farms in preparation for emigrating from the region. In early 1847, several Snow Hill families, including the Lees, Albrittons, Scarboroughs, and a few others withdrew from the Bethsaida Primitive Baptist Church and made the journey to Union Parish Louisiana. Levincy and her brother, George W. Albritton, bought adjoining farms about six miles northeast of Farmerville along Bayou d'Loutre. Martin B. Lee continued to increase his farm in the 1850s, and by 1860, they had established a 630-acre farm on the south side of Bayou d'Loutre, along the modern Salem Road near its intersection with the Marion Highway.

The Snow Hill immigrants led to a strong anti-mission sentiment in the neighborhood, resulting in the nearby Pleasant Hill (Missionary) Baptist Church deciding to dissolve and reform as Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church about 1848. We know that Martin Batte Lee belonged to the church later, and it is likely that both Levincy and Martin were founding members of Liberty Hill Primitive Baptist Church.

Levincy Albritton and Martin Batte Lee had twelve children, eleven daughters and one son.

Inscription
Consort of M. B. Lee

Family/Spouse: Martin Batte LEE. Martin was born on 22 Apr 1798 in Johnston County, North Carolina; died on 28 Mar 1884 in Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Taylor-Liberty Hill Cemetery, Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Enoch Albritton and Penelope Frizzle
• Census: 1850, Living in Farmerville, Union Co., Louisiana
• Census: 1860, Living in Farmerville, Union Co., Louisiana

Family/Spouse: Milly FOWLER. Milly was born on 2 Feb 1813 in Columbus Co., North Carolina; died in 1848; was buried in Taylor-Liberty Hill Cemetery, Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Ann FOWLER. Sarah was born on 22 Aug 1823 in Monroe Co., Alabama; died on 10 Apr 1875 in Union Parish, Louisiana; was buried in Taylor-Liberty Hill Cemetery, Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]