Includes the allied families of Hanks¹, Dodson, Lunsford, Petty, Roberts, Wright², and many more

1...through which we're related to Abe Lincoln.
2 ...through which we link to George Washington's family and British/European royalty...with multiple alleged links back to Adam & Eve

This particular Curtis family originated in the British Isles and immigrated to America between 1700 and 1720. During the 1800's our branch of this family were wealthy plantation owners in Alabama & Mississippi. Samuel Curtis, M.D. and Nancy Petty were given several slaves as a wedding gift from her parents. Samuel died shortly after the Civil War ended and their family migrated west to Anderson County, Texas. It was there that young Sam B. Curtis met Betty Jane Fitzgerald.

This Fitzgerald family originated in Ireland. In the early-to-mid 1700's our ancestors came to America and first settled in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. From there many of them migrated to Maury County, Tennessee. In the 1840s and 1850s many Fitzgerald and related families moved to Anderson County, Texas, settling in an area north of Palestine which became known as Fitzgerald, Texas, now known as the Concord Community.