“Yaller Tom”, son of Capt. Tom and Fannie Albritton, brother of Jim “Mush”, was born in Polk County, Florida. On 5 September 1895, in Bartow, Polk County, Florida, Tom married Martha Jane Mitchell Chancey, daughter of Edmund Layfayette and Temperance (Thomas) Chancey. She was born 9 February 1875 and lived at Duette, Manatee County, Florida. Thomas died 23 June 1958, at Bee Ridge, Sarasota County, Florida and is buried at Manasota Burial Park in Oneco, Manatee County, Florida. Jane died 1 April 1957 and is buried ---------.

1. Paul Clyde							b. 23 Jul 1886		d. 18 Feb 1946
m. Jane Rowe 24 Jan 1924				b.					d.
story following list**

2. Maude Chancey                     b.  27 Jul     1898            d.                 1966


 

3.  Karl Benjamin                       b.  19 Oct    1900            d.

m.  Edith Janet
McIntosh b.                1903            d.

Edith was born in Philidelphia to John(from Canada) and
Ethel E.M. McIntosh(from England).

 

JUDGE PAUL C.
ALBRITTON(1)**

 

          Judge Paul
Clyde Albritton was born 25 July 1896 in Polk County, Florida.  The son of Thomas A. and Martha Jane
(Chancey) Albritton, descendant of pioneer Florida families.  Thomas, a citrus grower, came to Sarasota
with his family in 1900.  Thomas bought
the old Sebon Rawl grove at Bee Ridge. 
He has been in the citrus industry since.

 

          Paul
attended the county school at Bee Ridge. 
Gradated from Sarasota High in 1915 in the schools second graduating
class in which there were three boys and five girls.  Paul then entered John B. Stetson University, at Deland, Florida
where he studied until his enlistment to the Navy June 1917.  For training they sent him to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wingfoot Lake Lighter-than-air
training camp at Akron, Ohio.  In May
1918, he was commissioned at Pensacola, Florida where he served as flight
instructor until May 1919.

 

          In the
autumn of 1919, Paul returned to Stetson U. where he graduated with an A.B.
degree in 1920.  Paul then entered the
law school at Stetson and graduated June 1922. 
Immediately admitted to the state and federal bar, he began practicing
in Sarasota during the summer of 1922. 
In 1923, Paul was appointed county attorney and served nearly a year.

 

          Paul
married Miss Emma Jane Rowe, of Miami, Florida on 24 January 1924.  On 20 May 1924, he was appointed county
judge by the governor to succeed Judge W. Y. Perry who died in office.  On 20 June 1927 Paul was appointed circuit
judge, becoming the youngest circuit judge in Florida.  Paul served until 1 August 1935 when he
resumed the practice of law.  He died 18
February 1946.  Myakka State Park, which
he helped create, is one of the achievements of this progressive citizen.

 

1.  Thomas James
PFC       b.  19 Jun     1925            d.

m.

 

2.  Charles Richard          b. 
17 Mar    1928            d.

m.
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