Person:Robert Patton (20)

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Robert J. Patton
d.10 Feb 1907 Texas
m. 9 Nov 1831
  1. Robert J. Patton1832 - 1907
  2. John Snell Patton1834 - Abt 1841
  3. Salina A. Patton1835 -
  4. Nancy S. E. Patton1837 - 1886
m. 18 Jan 1860
  1. Dr. William J. Patton1861 - 1929
  2. Robert Burris Patton1862 - 1884
  3. Martha Ann Patton1864 - 1932
  4. Sarah Catherine Patton1866 -
  5. John Ellis Patton1867 - 1887
  6. Rice Maxey Patton1869 -
  7. Thomas Hardy Patton1871 - 1939
  8. Lulu Bell Patton1877 - Bef 1951
Facts and Events
Name[1] Robert J. Patton
Gender Male
Birth? 12 Nov 1832 Somerville, Morgan County, Alabama
Other? 1837 His parents moved to Lamar County, Texas, in the fall of 1837, and their home was near the present town of Pattonville.Migrated 2
Marriage 18 Jan 1860 Lamar County, Texasto Catherine Gail Burris
Military? First Lieutenant in the Confederate Army, in the Graham Rangers.
Occupation? He was the first postmaster, Oct. 21, 1860, of Pattonville for many years, and operated a store there, and later on at Paris, Texas. In 1886 he was appointed deputy sheriff of Lamar County and was still serving in 1895.
Death? 10 Feb 1907 Texas

“Wm. Black & His Descendants’”

157.ROBERT J. PATTON was born in Morgan County, Alabama, ten miles east of Summerville, Nov. 12, 1832. His parents moved to Lamar County, Texas, in the fall of 1837, and their home was near the present town of Pattonville. He married Catherine Gail Burris, daughter of William M. and Matilda Carter Burris, Jan. 18, 1860, in Lamar County. He was a First Lieutenant in the Confederate Army, in the Graham Rangers. He was the first postmaster, Oct. 21, 1860, of Pattonville for many years, and operated a store there, and later on at Paris, Texas. In 1886 he was appointed deputy sheriff of Lamar County and was still serving in 1895. His wife died June 20, 1895. He died Feb. 10, 1907.

355William J.born Feb. 3, 1861 356Robert Burrisborn Dec. 29, 1862 357Martha Annborn July 30, 1864 358Sarah Catherineborn March 30, 1866 359John Ellisborn Nov. 12, 1867 360Rice Maxeyborn Aug. 28, 1869 361Thomas Hardyborn Oct. 30, 1871 362Lulu Bellborn Feb. 26, 1877


Extract from "Memoirs of Childhood" by R. J. Patton March 15, 1895

Father William Black Patton and mother Elizabeth Lewis Patton, moved to Lamar County, Texas crossing the line into Texas on the 28th day of September, 1837, located in Lamar County, at that time a part of Red River County, Clarksville being the county seat, on Birdsong Creek in Blossom Prairie 12 miles southeast of Paris, Lamar County, Texas, near the village of Pattonville, Texas. There remained among the Indians and wild animals until the county settled up, which was rapidly done. Our nearest neighbor was 6 miles southwest, one Joseph Hamershill & wife & 1 daughter Amanda H. Next was one Jim Crowder and 4 sons, all gone except the youngest son, Thomas, who settled one mile west. Next was Samuel Bridges and wife & father 12 miles northwest, next was Shearal Rollins &family, next John Bailey & family, next Hugh Allen, John T. Hammon Sr., Dr. William H. Burris, Isack Cruce, G. S. Bonner, John Cushing, Richard Miller & John Pew all within 18 months from the time we arrived in Blossom Prairie. Our first neighbors was about 500 Chuchtoughs (Choctaws) in camps about 400 yards north of our camp, who was good and kind to us. My only playmates were Indian children for 18 months. Wild game and varmints was plentiful, deer by the hundreds, turkeys in abundance, antilopes and a few buffalo, mustang ponies. Plentiful fish, opossum, coons plenty fish. No squirrels for some years. Little black bears were plentiful. No elks. There could be found occasionally Panthers and Mexican cougars. Plenty wild bees and frequently wild indians waould make a raid on us. With the help of the Chocktaughs we held them off and they did us little harm. Now and then they would kill a family west of us. The nearest family to where my father lives was in the Steve Hughes family where the indians killed one woman 12 miles south on Sulphur Creek in Round Prairie one family by the name of Featherstone was one woman killed and 1 woman and boy made their escape at night, but Mrs. Featherstone afterwards died from the fright and fatigue of running for life. This was about the spring of 1840. I could relate many Indian scraps, running from the Indians & hiding out and hunting scraps but times and space forbid. I will pass on to my grandfathers coming to Texas in the fall of 1840 settling 6 miles west of my father on Sandy Creek near where Biardstown now is. There I spent one year of my childhood days hunting and fishing along with grandfather Robert Patton and grandmother Nancy Patton. Her maiden name was Nancy Black from Indiana to Kentucky where she married my grandfather Robert Patton.


Patton Robert J. The below was written by Robert J. Patton:

My father moved his family 28th Sep 1837 to Texas and settled on Blossom Prairie, Lamar County. which became of its unsettled conditon at that time was considered "The Frontier" he and his family were without nearneighbors other than a settlement of Choctaw Indians who were encamped directly across the creek only a short distance away. On several occasions small bands of hostile tribes attempted raids upon us, but were quickly dispersed by the friendly Choctaws. At this time all supplies of every nature were shipped by steam boat from New Orleans, LA but he Miss. River to the intersection of Red River, then up Red River to Jefferson, Texas which was then our only source of supply and everything had to be transported across the country (mostly by oxen) from Jefferson, a distance of something more than 100 miles, until eventually a railroad was built through Lamar County and our supplies were then drawn from the little railroad town of Pin Hook, located NW of us. Then other families from the east began settling up our vicinity and we made such rapid inroads to civilzation that all aspect of a frontier atmosphere soon give way to a pieaceful law abiding farmers community. A mall village soon sprung up and was called Pattonville in honor of William B. Patton my father, its founder. It was here that I, Robert J. Patton married Miss Catherine Gail Burris my brother John S. married Miss Sallie Phillips and sister Salina married Mr. Cling Bills (George Cling Bills). http://www.genfinders.com/Netherlands/src227.htm#NI48479

References
  1. Raymond Finley Hughes and Howard Clift Black. William Black and his Descendents A Genealogy of the Descendents of William Black of Augusta County, VA and la. (Unpublished. Copyrighted 1973 by Hughes).