Family:John Patton and Sallie Phillips (1)

Personen : 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