When Jeremiah Fitzgerald was born on 4 July 1789, in Marcellus, Marcellus, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, Jeremiah Fitzgerald, was 38 and his mother, Anna Margaret Mingus, was 38. He married Sylvia Strickland on 1 December 1812. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Ontario, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1832. He died on 2 May 1870, in Springport, Jackson, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Springport, Jackson, Michigan, United States.