Notes:

Buried:
"Sgt. US Army, WWII.

Family/Spouse: (Living) RICHARDSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. (Living) SITTON
2. (Living) SITTON
3. (Living) SITTON

Notes:

WARD COUNTY TX: BIRTHS 1917-1918 from Draft Registration Cards
Andrew Jackson Sitton, b 7 Jan 1882 Res. Ward Co.

. 1908 December 22 - he married Adelia Banks, daughter of W. W. & Ida Banks. They became the parents of 6 daughters & one son.

. 1909 July 21 - Dallas Morning News
Pyote Organizes a Commercial Club
Special to the News.
Pyote, Tex, July 20 - A commercial club was organized at Pyote for the purpose of advertising the town & tributary country. Officers elected: H L Johnston, president, A J Sitton, secretary. The club will hold regular weekly meetings.

. 1910 Apr 03 - Forth Worth Star-Telegram
Prominent Men At Congress Here, will discuss Problem of Importance to the State.
Dry farming & irrigation are 2 of the subjects on Program.
When the Texas Conservation Congress convenes in Fort Worth, Tuesday, some of the most prominent men in Texas will assemble to discuss problems of all interest to the state. ... Gov. T M Campbell ... About 1,000 delegates have been appointed by county judges, commercial clubs & different organizations over the state. In the reception room of the Board of Trade a wooden frame 16x16 feet is being erected. This frame is to contain a monster map of Texas, which was used at the St. Louis Exposition. The frame will slanted as the Board of Trade reception room is only 14 feet in height.
Ward County, A. J. Sitton, Pyote.

. 1912 Feb 7 - Pyote, A J Sitton, who has been secretary of the Pyote Commercial Club has been secretary of the club since its organization 3 years ago, was continued [elected] as secretary.
Dallas Morning News. Texas.

. 1915 Sep 12- WWII Registration Card Andrew Jackson Sitton, born 7 Jan 1882, Residing, Pyote, Texas.

. 1916 Dec 1924 - Fort Work Star-Telegram
Real Estate For Exchange, Equity in 6 lots in Evans-Pearson Westwood addition for automobile or other trade of equal value. A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.

. Died at Sunset Haven Nursing Home, 2 Year stay. Cause of death Hypostatic pneumonia, due to acute pyelonephritis and severe arteriosclerosis.

. 1918 Mar 8 - Maxwell Truck. Boquor Motor Co. Southwestern Distributors, Dealers: A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.
Ref: El Pasco Herald Newspaper.

. 1928 Feb 19 - Fort Worth, Texas. Oil Town is Looking for C. of C. Secretary for its chamber of Commerce. A J Sitton postmaster, was elected President. A year ago Pyote was just a wide place in the road, & now due to the oil activity, it isa town of more than 4,000 inhabitants. It has been decided to put a $150,00 road bond issue to a vote to improve the highway leading into the Winkler County oilfield. Peyote also boasts a 100 room hotel.

. 1929 Apr 5 - At a meeting of business men here steps ere taken to correct the residence shortage at Pyote. It was decided to organize an investment company to erect a number of residences, losing less than $1,500. A J Sitton treasurer.

. 1935 JULY 18 - Ripleys Believe It or Not, [Carton drawing of] Catfish for 4 legs, caught by A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.
Ref: Oregonian Newspaper, Portland, Oregon. and Repository Newspaper, Canton, Ohio.

. 1939 Feb 13 - School book figures on Murders, Editor, herald Post:
In view of the discussions pro & con relative to the death penalty, I wish to call attention to a chart given on page 91 of Book 3, Exploring New Fields, a 7th grade book taught in the public schools of Texas & endorsed by the State Board of Education. this chart gives the number of murders per 100,000 in each state. An examination of this record shows that there are several ties as many murders committed intros states having the death penalty as intros that do not. Wisconsin, a non-death penalty state has 1.1 per 100,000. Texas, a death penalty state has 18.2 more than 16 times as many. Michigan the tightest of the non-death penalty states as 3.3 & Alabama, the high-test of the death penalty states has 34.5.
If the death penalty is necessary to prevent murder than will some death penalty advocate explain these figures. Signed Pyote, Texas, A.J. Sitton.
. 1939 Dec 12 - SideBar Remarks, by E M Pooley. Pecos Bill that tough old cyclone buster who was written up i the America Mercury this month & some of whose exploits were mentioned her a few days ao, arouses mixed emotions. A J Sitton of Pyote holds him in contempt, but Joe Evans recognized Pecos Bill as quite a top hand & goes him one better. "The Pecos Bill mentioned in Side Bar Remarks wa well known in this section, Mr Sitton writes. He located at Wink during the early part of the oil boom, but was son run out of town for being a jelly bean. Well bet Bro. Sitton helped to the running, too. …such years as those folks, are why people sometimes say you can't believe everything you read in the papers. But if anybody in these her parts thinks he can beat Bro. Sitton or Bro. Evans at stretching the trough, well, have at it, I'ill take the risk of printing same.
. 1941 Apr 4 -It appears that Adolf [Hilter] in starting into the Balkan country has about the same trouble that Wm. Allen White said what was the matter with Kansas: he started out to raise all & produced an over supply. We note that Matsuoka asks that the leaders of the belligerent countries et together at a peace conference. If Adolf & Churchill get together in the same room I could have the same desire to see it that a try had in trying 2 men for participating in a fracas in Oklahoma in an early day. the evidence showed that one participant had a shotgun, a pitchfork, a butcher knife & an ax, while his opponent had a rifle, six shooter, a hatchet & crowbar. The jury, after hearing the evidence treated & immediately returned with averdict: We the jury would have given $5 to have seen the fight. A J Sitton, Pyote.
. 1943 Mar 10 [Abbreviated version] By A J Sitton the Encyclopedia authorities of 20 years ago we find Finland was Fascist before Italy or Germany. Finland secured its independence from Russia in 1917. Baron Mannerheim, of the Finnish Army was dissatisfied the The Social Democratic part & called upon Germany for air to overthrowing the govt.
. 1943 May 3 - Re Millonaire Relief Bill now before congress. …I lost everything in the 1929 crash & have been trying to stage a comeback since that time. All my profits except living expenses were applied on debts of many years standing so the tax money was had to raise, yet I have gladly paid the tax. Wha is the the interest of the country is to may interest.
. 1943 Oct 19 - Some Advice for Preachers, by A J Sitton. a preacher in Memphis before commencing his Sunday services made this announcement: Borhters & Sisters, I am now abut to pass the collection plate. Before doing so, I wish to state there is a brother in the audience who is paying too much attention to atoner man's wife, & unless there is a $5 bill in the plate when it returns, I am going to mention his name. when the plate returned it contained 19 $5 bills & one $2 bill with a note attached, Will pay you the balance Saturday. Pyote, Texas.
. 1944 Jan 24, A J Sitton, article about Franco & Spain.
. 1945 Jan 1, A J Sitton article about Polish officials on the Czechoslovak Frontier on Sept 28, 1938.
Ref: El Paso Herald Post Newspaper, Texas.

. 1947 Oct 24 - Austin Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the Ward Co. district Court in its conviction of half S Haigh of burglary & a sense of 2 years confinement. Haigh was invited of burglarizing the store of A J Sitton in Pyote on Jan 1 1946, in the course of the burglary, stilton shot Haigh, while another person escaped. Haight contended he had not entered the store by force, as the door hd been closed, it was necessary to shove it open to obtain entrance. the court ruled it was not necessary that the door or lock be broken open to constitute forcible entry.
Ref: Odessa American Newspaper., Texas.

. 1948 Jan 5- By A J Sitton. Jude J D Kugle, Pyote farmer, lawyer & oil producer owns extensive farming interests in the Big Valley south of Pyote, noted that artesian water had been struck in a number of wells over a distance of about 9 miles & decide to make a test of the water. Oil drillers were not interested in water & cased off the flow in search of oil. After a number of heartbreaking accidents, Judge Kyle finally struck a sea of water at 1160 feet that estimates indicate will irrigate more than 80 Acres. Four other tests are scheduled. Pyote.
Ref: El Paso Herald Post Newspaper.

. 1955 Jul 3 - Letters from readers: Truman Baiters. We trust Truman baiters & isolationist took note of how the Reds at San Francisco tried to keep Truman from speaking to the conference. Truman & Acheson have been pet haters of the Reds since the Truman Doctrine stopped them from overrunning Europe. They also stopped them in Korea as long as they were in office. A J Sitton, Pyote, Texas.

. 1959 Feb 10 - Letters from readers: TEXAS PEYOTE TEA IS POTENT DRINK
In your issue of Jan 27 you have a writeup of Pyote. The name originally was spelled Peyote, but when the post office was established in 1907 the department spelled it Pyote & established the office. Came here from North Texas in Mary 1907.
I am familiar with the social actions of the Kiowa-Comanche Indians, as I are up in that country. They used the shrub by boiling it into a tea & drinking it. It gave them great endurance when they went on the warpath. After the Comanches were moved to the reservation in Oklahoma they sent a delegation to the Rio Grande to gather a supply of the shrub for use in their sun & rain dances.
I have heard it report that during one of their celebrations a jack ravin that the been chased all over Western Oklahoma by predatory animals slipped up to one of the pots & drank several swings of the peyote tea. Immediately he decided to wreak menage on his tormentors. In a short time he cleans up on 3 wildcats, 2 coyotes & one lobo wolf. When last seen he was chasing a mountain lion down Beaver creek at a mile a minute. This stuff was potent. A J Sitton, Pyote Texas.
Ref: Dallas Morning News.

. 1961 Apr 2, Mayor A J Sitton is unopposed in his bid for another term. Ref: Odessa Am. News.
Note: Many other political newspaper articles are not recorded here. P J Ahlberg.
. Uncle Jack (John Sitton Lucas) told me that Worttie had stolen money from the post office. AJ Sitton took the blame for it so she would not have to go to jail. Worttie was his wife's sister. Eventually, he did get a pardon from Roosevelt.  I have not verified this story yet.
Ref: Lucas Family Tree, by cindlyluc1, date 2018.
. 1936 Sep 24 - Franklin D Roosevelt, President of USA, Andrew J Sitton was convicted in US District of Texas on an indictment charging the embelsament of Post office funds, sentenced to imprisonment for 3 years in US Industrial Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio, fined $5469.19. Pardoned.

. 1973 Mar 4 - Services for Andrew Jackson stilton Sr., 1, a longtime Pyote resident who died about 4:39 PM. t
Thursday in an el Paso nursing home after a long illness, were 3P =M Sat. in Pyote Baptist Church. burial Pyote Cemetery. Born Jan 7 1882 in St. Joe Ark., Sitton has been a merchant in Pyote.
Surviors include a son A J Sitton, Jr. of Fort Stockton, 5 Daughters Mrs Ida Ludas, Mrs Fay Kleban & Mrs Virginia Fisk, all of El Paso, Mrs. Frances Turner of Austin & Mrs Hazel Strickland of Phoenix, Ariz.; a brother, Fitz Sitton of Pyote; 22 grandchildren & 14 great grandchildren.
Ref: Odessa Am. News.
.Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Died:
Aged 91, COD: Hypostatic pneumonia, Acute peel neuritis & Arteriosclerosis. Lane.

Buried:
"Dad", Aged 91.

Andrew married Emily ADELIA BANKS on 22 Dec 1908 in Barstow, Ward Co., Texas. Emily was born on 8 Oct 1883 in Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas; died on 30 Nov 1969 in El Paso, El Paso Co., Texas; was buried in Pyote Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Adelia Banks is the daughter of Ida May English, born 1856 Clarksville, Red River Co., Texas
& Wm. Wooten Banks, born 1853 Holly Springs, Marshall Co., Mississippi. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Delia Banks.

Died:
COD: pneumonia 5 days.

Notes:

Parents supporter of Abraham Lincoln & driven out of Alabama because of their antislavery stance. Moved to Illinois then Missouri until after the Civil War & then to Arkansas.

Twenty-five years in Pyote, Texas:
. 1870 Texas Co., MO., Upton Twp., page 486B. (SITTEN)

. 1850 Nov 15 Census, Walker Co., Alabama, Twp. 12, p308:
James Sutton, 22, 1850 Alabama, Farmer
Sarah R Sutton, 22, 1828 Georgia
George W Sutton, 2, 1848 Alabama
CiceroS Sutton, 2 months, Alabama.

Census 1860 - Winston Co., AL. Twp. 12, Range 9, page 1223B.
Census 1870 - Plum Valley, Texas Co., Upton Missouri: Sitten

. 1880 Census Arkansas, Searcy District 175 St. Joe
G W Sitton, 32y. / b 1848 Alabama, father b. Alabama, Mother Geo. Rozene Sitton 34, wife, Sarah Sitton 13, Willis M Sitton 10, N B R Sitton 8, M M J Sitton 5, C H Sitton 2.
Census 1910 - Ward, Texas, 2 J-PCT, Cicero F Sitton1850 Alabama White Male

Census 1920, Pyote, Texas
Cicero S Sitton, 68y, Alabama, father b Georgia, mother b Georgia, labour, on steam railroad;
Caroline Sitton, 65y b. Canada, parents b England;
Noah G Sitton, 39y, b Arkansas Blacksmith, Own shop.
Fitzhugh L Sitton, 21y, b , Oklahoma Chauffeur, United Mail Service.

Cicero S Sitton was a member of the Mason. (Blacksmith)

. 1899 Jun 29 - A postoffice has been established at Crowe, Roger Mills County, OK. with Cicero S Sitton as postmaster.
Ref: Minor Capital News, Dallas Texas.

. 1902 Jan 18 - Coriscana, Texas - the building occupied by Sitton 's grocery store, on North Beaton Street caught fire early Friday morning & Mark Lane was suffocated by the smoke which filled the second floor. The fire was caused by the explosion of a lamp.
Ref: Waxahachie Daily Light Newspaper, Texas.

. 1907 Cicero S. Sitton & his sons opened a store, a 3 day barbecue was held, & most of the town lots were sold. A school petition was circulated at the barbecue, & later a one-room school building was constructed.

The Sitton Mercantile safe may be found in the Pyote Museum. (2006).
Pyote began as a siding & telegraph station constructed when the Texas & Pacific Railway Co. laid rails from Fort Worth westward toward El Paso in 1881. Even with access to a steam railway, the site initially known as Pyote Tank did not develop economically for a quarter century.
Then in 1906 local ranch owners sold 200 Acres alongside the railroad to Pyote Town Development Co. The next year, Cicero Silas Sitton, came to the proposed new town & opened its first store. In the meantime the town site Co. hosted a 3 day barbecue, during which time it began selling town lots to prospective residents & businessmen. In time Pyote grew into a local ranch supply center with a hotel, restaurant, lumber yard, barbershop, school, & post office...In 2000 town possessed only one building still standing amid the ruins & foundations of dozens of others.
Ref: More Ghost Towns of Texas, By T. Lindsay Baker.

. 1910 Nov 21 - Kermit, Taxas will soon have telephone connection with the T & P Railroad at Pyote; the line now owned by Sitton Mercantile company, of that place & some citizens of Duval, is to be extended to Kermit. It is said that the Sitton Mercantile company of Pyote, will soon begin the erection of a large business house at Kermit.
Ref: El Pasco Herald Newspaper, Texas.

Census 1930 Pyote Texas.
- Cicero Sitton, Head aged 79, /b 1851, married age 20, Blacksmith.
Caroline P Sitton, 76y, B. Canada, married age 17, Landed 1860 [correct date: 1856]
G Noah Sitton, 50y, single, b Arkansa. - - -

Birth:
TX Death Cert. Born Wukuorin?, ALA.

Died:
b. Winston, AL. COD: Asthma, cardiac compensation.

Buried:

Cicero married Caroline PATTERSON on 6 Aug 1871 in Upton Twp., Texas Co., Missouri. Caroline (daughter of Richard PATTERSON and Mary Ann CATCHPOLE) was born on 10 Mar 1854 in Belwood, Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 25 Aug 1939 in Pyote, Ward County, State of Texas; was buried in Pyote Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Richard Patterson was farming in Belwood, GARAFRAXA TWP., as originally Henry Catchpole had been. By 1839 Henry Catchpole & family were one of the early pioneers to relocate to the new growing City of Guelph, in Wellington County. It is possible that Mary Ann could have gone to be near her mother for the birth of her children, but her place of living & growing up would have been Belwood. Also Douglas, as Belwood was then named, remains a small farming place, so people would give the name of the nearby thriving City of Guelph as their living location. - PJA 2011.

. Misses Caroline & sister Sarah Patterson both married in 1871, 6 months after the death of her father. Sister Elizabeth Patterson had married in 1869.

. Texas Death Cerficate: Caroline Sitton, Pyote, Texas
Born March 10 1854, Aged 85y 5m 15d, wife of C S Sitton. Born Guelph, Ontario, d/o Richard Paterson of King Lin, England, & Miss Ketch Poal, b London, England,
Cause of Death: Carcinoma of stomach, onset about Oct 1937, & senility.
Original homesteader of Pyote, Texas.

. After his marriage, Cicero followed the blacksmith's trade until 1876, when he moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he followed his trade for about a year. Moving then to Searcy County, Arkansas, he worked at his forge until 1885. While in Arkansas, he shod the horse of Jesse James. Then he returned to Texas & embarked in agriculture, locating first in Wilbarger County & later in Baylor County. Going in 1897 to what was then Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, he crossed the Red River 13 times.

When he first arrived in Oklahoma Territory, he & his family lived in a dugout. This was where his son Fitzhugh was born. One time when he needed food for his family, he ran into Judge Roy Bean (the law west of the Pecos). The Judge offered him a half a beef if he would butcher it. Later he found out the beef didn't belong to the Judge & he could have been hanged.
He took a prominent part in the development of Elk City, & served as its first postmaster, living a mile & a half away. Returning to Texas in 1901, Cicero Silas, associated with his son Ransom, entered into the mercantile business at Afton, Dickens County, under the firm name of R. L. Sitton & Co. Selling out his interest in the firm in 1907, he moved to Pyote, Texas. His wife said she was not moving again, so he erected the first house in the new town.

. Census 1870 Jul 17 Missouri, Caroline Patterson 16 y /b 1854, home, Born Canada, Parents foreign.

. State of Missouri, County of Texas. This is to certify that I solemnized the rite of matrimony between Circero S Sitton & Miss Caroline Patters, the 6 day of August AD 1871. Signed Joseph Motdeau.

. 1880 Census, Saint Joe, Searcy, Arkansas
C S Sitton, Age 2, born 1851 Alabama, Blacksmith, Married, Father b. Alabama, Mother b. Georgia.
. Caroline, age 25, b 1855 Canada, wife, Parents both b England
James R Sitton, age 8 / b 1872 Missouri, son
R L Sitton, Age 5 / 1875, Missouri, son
G N Sitton, Age 10 /b 1879, Arkansas, son.

Alternate Spelling: Carolyne. Her father Richard Patterson spelled her name as Caroline. - PJA

. 1910 Apr 25 Census, Pyote Justice Precinct, Ward Co., Texas
Sitton Caroline, Age 56, married 39y =1871, 6 of 14 children still living, both parents b. England.
also present, Cicero S Sitton, George N, Monroe, May, & Fitzhugh L Sitton.
Andrew J Sitton & wife Adelia; Ranson L Sitton & wife Pink, dau. alma & son Cicero. & brother-in-law, Frank Squares Age 11,

. 1930 Apr 3 Census Pyote City, Ward Co. Texas
Carolyn P Sitton, wife, 72/b1854 at 17 years old /1871 in Canada English, parents both English, *Landed 1860 Missouri.
Note: Her father Richard Patterson signed papers indicating he was already in Houston, Texas County, Missouri by *June 1856. Caroline would have been only seven at that time. - PJ Ahlberg.

. 1936 - The 82 widowed Caroline is called upon to deliver a neighbor's baby because the baby won't wait for the doctor.
Ref: Granddaughter, Jewell Moreland Scot, 1995.

. 1995 GRANDMA SITTON DOES IT ONE LAST TIME
The view from the second & top floor of the square, red brick school was a panorama of my world, the town of Pyote - the town where I was born & lived until I was t13 years old, the town my grandparents helped found in 1907. Behind the school was the lonesome black highway, running off to Wink, through the mesquite, red sand & greasewood. The same common black highway led into “town”- the sparse business section at the intersection with the Bankhead Highway. It did not touch me that this colorful highway ran from the Atlantic to California; my world was in view.
In 1936, I knew every struggling family left adrift in Pyote & could locate their simple houses from my perch. Only a few houses were located on the broad, graded, dirt streets, laid out in perfect squares by some long ago ambitious politician.  Most houses were at the end of trailing ruts of roads. I could see my house & the well-worn trail leading to it from the school. Across the way from my house was Aunt Pink & Uncle Rance’s house with its tangle of barbed wire fences & wooden gates. Beyond it, & through their pasture, was the neat home of my friend, Almira Lewis.
At another angle from my house, down a rutted road, there is Aunt Aurie & Uncle Fitz’s large square house built on two-foot posts, with a neat crawl space hide-away underneath. Grandma’s new house is beside them, built so she could be close to Uncle Fitz, now that she is alone & 82 years old. My friend Betty Elsner & her family live in grandma’s old home, one of the first built in the town & located just off the highway, on one of the wide, graded bare streets.
The sky is clear, blue & clean; the air is fresh & scented with greasewood. Immediately across the wide, graded bare street from the school is a row of 2 room houses, built sparsely, close, & painted green in a town of unpainted wood. The oil field workers line up to squash their growing families into these 2 room houses.
My classmate, Nell Lakey, lives in one of these refuges with her brother, father & pregnant mother. He is a driller; consequently, he drives a large shiny, new car.
As is the practice at noon, we students wait for class to recommence standing, staring out the open windows in the study hall. We see Nell’s father get in his shiny, new car, throwing rocks as he tears off. We watch the car sling toward town, but then it makes a sharp left turn going toward my house, then a right that leads nowhere but to Uncle Fitz’s & Grandma’s houses. He abandons the car at an odd angle, climbs through the barbed wire fence & runs to Grandma’s house. In just a few minutes, he hurries Grandma out, in her bonnet, but still tying on her clean, white apron. He opens the gate, puts her in the car, & retraces his route to his two-room home in our close view. Grandma climbs out of the car & scurries into Nell’s house. 
The reason for the unfurling drama dawns on us. Nell gets excited. “Mother is having her baby! Mother is having her baby."
The bell interrupts our drama & we drag off to class. At the end of the school day, we wait at the one-rail school boundary fence while Nell runs across the wide, graded dirt road & comes back immediately to tell us she has a new sister & Grandma Sitton delivered her because she could’t wait for the doctor from Pecos.    
 - by Jewell Scott, Memories of Pyote, USgenwebsites, org. - - -

Birth:
- 1870 Census, Upton Twp., DOB 1854

Died:
COD: Carcinoma of stomach since 10.1937. Aged 85y 5m 15d.

Buried:
Short thick grey tombstone reads: 1854 - 1939

Notes:

James Fitz is the son of Mary POLLY Blythe (1Aug1790 South Carolina) & Philip Sitton.III (23 Dec 1790 Buncombe, North Carolina.)

. 1860 Census Twp. 12, Range 9, Winston Co., Alabama
James Sitton, Age 32, /1828, B Alabama
Sarah R, 32, 1828, b Georgia
George W 12, 1848, Alabama
Cicero S Sitton, 10, 1850, Alabama
Nancy A, 8 y, 1852, Alabama
William Sitton, 3, 1857 b Alabama.
Note: James Sitton & Burgess family had their farms side by side in Alabama.

. 1860 Sep 1. Alabama Homestead & Cash Entry Patents
James Sitton, 120.28 Acres 1 NW Huntsville & 119.97 Acres, 1 E SW Huntsville.

. 1870 Census Licking, Upton Twp., Texas Co, Missouri
G W Sitton, 1838, Alabama, Rosine, Sarah, Willis Sitton, b 1869 Missouri.

. James Sitton was born in Walker County, Alabama, where his parents, Philip & Polly Blythe Sitton, settled after they left the Mills River Valley of Henderson County, N. C.
James was a staunch supporter of the policies of Abraham Lincoln, & was forced to leave Alabama with his family. After a short time in Illinois, he went to Missouri where he remained until after the Civil War. Going from there to Arkansas, he was a resident of Saint Joe, Searcy County, until his death in 1890. He was a man of pronounced view, & fearless in the manner of expressing them. He served as Justice of the Peace in Alabama, Missouri, & Arkansas, as office for which he was amply qualified.

James was a farmer, iron worker, & he preached on the side, being a faith-healer. It was reported that people came to him & he traveled many miles on horseback to pray & "lay hands" on the sick. He married Sarah J. Wilson, Daughter of Thomas Wilson, who moved from South Carolina to Georgia in pioneer days. She died in Searcy County 1n 1917 at age 90.

. James & Sarah R Sitton, The Former a representative of an old & influential family of the South, where his father & grandfather were prominently identified with the iron industry at Birmingham, Alabama.
James Sitton removed from Alabama to Missouri at the time of the Civil war, & later he removed with his family to Northern Arkansas. His wife is a native of Georgia. Her maiden name was Wilson & she is a descendant of the early settlers of Virginia.
Of the children of James & Sarah R Sitton Henry W. was the youngest in order of birth; George W. is a farmer in the vicinity St. Joe, Arkansas; Cicero is engaged in the mercantile business at Pyote, Texas; William is a successful farmer & stock grower in Stephens County, Oklahoma, & resides near Comanche; James P. is a farmer in Okfuskee County, this state; Mrs. Nancy McClain resides near Calico Rock, Arkansas, her husband being a farmer by vocation; & Mrs. Mary Russell is the wife of a prosperous farmer residing near St. Joe, Arkansas.
Ref: A Standard History of Oklahoma, Vol 5, Joseph Bradfield Thorburn. - - -

Birth:
Huntsville, Alabama.

Died:
Living with son William & his wife Louisa Cash.

Buried:
Saint Jo, Arkansas.

James married Sarah Ann SALLY WILSON in 1843 in Alabama. Sarah was born on 22 Jul 1828 in Georgia; died on 4 Mar 1917 in St. Joe, Searcy Co., Arkansas; was buried in Osborne Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sally is the daughter of Mary (Emma) Myers, born 29 May, 1802 in Georgia, died 29 Dec 1859 & buried in Myers' Cemetery and Thomas Willson..

. 1850 Nov 15-16 Census, Walker Co., Alabama
Willson, Thomas, 48, 1802 South Carolina, Farmer
Mary Willson, 48, b 1802, Georgia
Cicero M Willson, 20, b 1830 Georgia, farmer
Nancy A Willson 18, b 1832, Georgia
Mary E, 16, 1834, Alabama
Jacob A, 15, 1835 Alabama
Margaret Willson, 9, 1850 Alabama
Thomas J Willson, 13, 1837 Alabama, & Next Family:
John Meyers, Age 57, b 1793 Georgia
Nancy Myers, 57, b. 1793 South Carolina
Sarah Myers, 78, b 1772 Virginia, spinster;

. 1932 Texas Death Certificate of her son, Cicero S Sitton, says Sarah Wilson was born in Witmore ( ?spelling), Ala.

George Washington Sitton, b: 9 May 1848 in, Walker, Alabama
Cicero Silas Sitton, b: 1850 in, Walker, Alabama
Nancy Ann Sitton, b: 7 Dec 1852 in Alabama
Emma (Sara) Sitton, b: 1852 in Walker, Alabama
William (Bill) Sitton, b: 1857 in Winston, Alabama
Mary Jane Sitton, b: 17 Aug 1860 in Winston, Alabama
James Fitz Sitton, Jr., b: 1871 in Missouri
Henry Sitton, b: 12 May 1874 in Houston, Texas, Missouri.

Thomas Wilson, father
Her father was Thomas Wilson (Willson), b. 1801 Georgia & died Huntsville.
He was a lawyer, Georgia & Alabama, USA. Thomas was the only man in that part of the country (Walker County, Alabama) who voted for Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860.

. Sarah J. Wilson, Daughter of Thomas Wilson, who moved from South Carolina to Georgia in pioneer days .

. 1824 Oct 12 & 1832 Apr 4 - Letters remaining in Huntsville Post Office: Thomas Willson.
Ref: The Democrat newspaper, Huntsville, Alabama.

. 1837 Mar 30 - Georgia, Butts County. This is to certify that in the fall of 1834, I was attacked with Rheumatism, in the back & hips, by which I was unable to turn in the bed for 8 or 10 days, at which time Dr Z Ellison, called on me & proposed administering medicine & apply the steam or vapor bath, according to the botanic or Thomsonian system. though much dreaded the operation & sudden transition from heat to cold, or from perspiration to cold water, my pain was so acute I venture the operation & was truly astonished to find such relief, after being twice steamed, I was able to attend to my business & what was most surprising to me, was the sensations I so much dreaded, were of the most pleasant nature. Given under my hand this 5th day of February 1836. Signed, Thomas Wilson.
Ref: Jacksonville Republican newspaper.

. 1845 Apr 30 - Democratic Meeting, from the Jackson Co. Democrat. Held at the court house in Bellefonte, a large number of democracy of Jackson assembled. Resolutions Resolved. [ 5 persons 7] Thomas Wilson be appointed delate to represent this county in the contention at Tuscloasa in the event that all should not attend, those in attendance shall be authorized to give the whole number of voices to which this county is entitled.
Ref: The Democrat newspaper, Huntsville, Alabama. - - -

Birth:
Town: Wukuoni?? Ref: Census 1870.

Notes:

Richard is the son of Elizabeth Hotson & John V Patterson.

. Baptism Registration Belaugh, Aylsham District, Co. Norfolk Norwich Diocese, Belaugh Parish Register of Archdeacon Transcripts 1600-1812:
1810 Sep 16, Richard Patterson, son of John V & Elizabeth Patterson, late Hotson, privately baptized, by John Prowett, Rector Belaugh Parish.
Note1: There is a second baptismal entry giving the year ar 1811 Sep 16. This date was selected from the BOTTOM of the list, rather than the top of the baptism records. Therefore, I suggest the orginal earlier date to be the most likely correct. - PJ Ahlberg 2018.

. The parish churches for King's Lynn, Norfolk Co., are:
Lynn St Margarets is the old original town of Lynn,
Lynn All Saints (sometimes listed as South Lynn),
Lynn North (sometimes listed as St Edmunds),
Lynn Regis & Lynn St. Nicholas Anne.

Richard Patterson was born in King's Lynn, Norfolk Co., England. Some of evidence of this:

Ontario Marriage Registration, Wellington Co., 21 Nov 1859,
Wm. Smeaton, married Sarah Paterson, Born LYNN, England, 21y /1838,
d/o Mary Ann & Richard Paterson.
Note2: Marriage of daughter Sarah Patterson - is a slight confusing of who was born in Lynn. Her mother, Mary Ann Catchpole Patterson was born in Wangford By Southwold, Suffolk Co., England. KING'S LYNN is usually shortened to Lynn. (Daughter Sarah Patterson was, of course, born in Ontario.)

* 1929 Jun 25. Pyote, Texas Death Certificate
(daughter) Caroline Patterson Sitton, Born Guelph Canada 1854.3.10.
Father Richard Paterson, Born King Lin, England, Mother Ketch Poal, b. London, England.

. King's Lynn is a seaport known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn & is in Northfolk Co., England, about 98 miles /158 km. north of London. Could a reason for Richard's emigration have been the 1832 cholera epidemic in King's Lynn?
Aylsham was named for a Saxon settlement called Aegel, for ham for village. In 1086 it was was recorded in the Domesday Book as Elesham. The parish church St Peter Belaugh, Ingworth Deanery, dates before 1385. . - .

. The first settlers came into Central Wellington co. mainly by 3 routes: First by the old Indian trail along the Grand River from the German settlement in Waterloo; 2nd from dunes St. by way of Erin & Eramosa: & third, from Guelph after its founding in 1827, by way of Eramosa or Elora.
* A D Ferrier's Reminiscences, from lectures delivered to Farmers & Mechanics Institute, Fergus in 1864. Ferrier recalls his travels starting in 1830-1834.
About Jun 1834 he started in the stage, a common lumber wagon, for Guelph & and awful shaking we got. When we got a mile or two out of Dundas I resolved to walk. The woods look so hight & dismal that I hunted up a god big stuff in case of meeting a bear. The traveling through the one woods than was bump against a stump or the big roots & then thump into a hole, with a losing variety of little steep gravel & sand knolls now & then, especially aft getting into Puslinch Twp. I never travelled that road in a wagon again, except one, and then was because I had cut my foot, so I could not help it. The crossed ways too were numerous & bad.
We dined at Patterson's Inn on the great Canadian standard dish - ham and eggs. After leaving the old "Red House" there was not a decent looking house till we got close to Guelph.
Ref: Sketches of the Early Days of Fergus & vicinity, 1919.

. 1834 Census, Garafraxa Twp., Gore District Wellington Co., Ontario
Richard Patterson, One male over 16.
Note3: Richard Patterson was not found on the 1833 Garafraxa Assessment.
Note4: Richard is living in Garafraxa alone. There were only 27 families living in Garafraxa in 1834.)

. RECORD FOR FURTHER RESEARCH* Archibald Patterson, Con 2 Lot 8, Erin Twp., 1827 Assessment: Total 7 people.1832-1833: Two males. 1832. Total 8.

. 1854 Methodist Church South, Licking, organized by Rev T O Smith in the old log school house. 1856 Preacher John Moore had a house of worship built. J R Burk was presiding elder. during the Civil war there are no services held here. 1867 Rev GA Carter was sent to preach at Licking. Richard Patterson was Anglican, but no Anglican churches were near him in Licking.

. 1852 Jan. Census Garafraxa Twp., Wellington County, Ontario, Canada, Page 33, Lines 20-25, Item Number 1111861
Richard Paterson, Farmer & Tavernkeeper, born England, age 40 years [ 1812];
Maryann, age 30 / 1822, Married, England,
Sarah, age 8 / 1844, Canada West,
Elizabeth, age 6 / 1846, Canada West,
Mary, age 3 years / 1849, Canada West,
Pheby Patterson, age 2 / born 1850 Canada West, 2 years.
House: Tavern, Log Cabin {The two entries appear to be 2 buildings. - PJA].
. Ontario Land Registry Abstract, Wellington Co. Book West Garafraxa, Book 70, p.71
Lot 7 NE Half, Con 6, West Garafraxa:
. 1837 Mar 18, Patent, Crown, to Daniel Black
. 1856 Mar 14, Bargain&Sale, David Black & Wife, to Richard Patterson, NEHalf 100, £184.3.10
. 1856 Mar 14, Mortgage, Grantor, Richard Patterson, father & guardian of Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Phebe, John & Caroline Patterson, by Mary late his wife, only daughter of Henry Catchpole.
Grantee: George Sunley & Robert Sunley, Executors of the late Henry Catchpole.
. 1870 May 20, Trust Deed, Richard Patterson, to Mary Patterson, spinster, NE Half 100A.
. 1870 Jun 20, Mortgage, Jesse Bowley & Wife, to Mary Patterson #EH, 100A, $2600.
. 1870 May 3, Discharge Mortgage, Rob sunless, sole survives Exec of Hen. Catchpole, to Richard Patterson, 1870 Sep 18, $200, Mortgage.
. 1870 June 3, Robt Sunley, Sole surveying Executor of Henry Catchpole, to Richard Patterson, 1870 Sep 18, $200 for Mortgage 9375.
. 1872 May 18, Discharge Mortgage, Registered 15 June 1872, Mary Patterson Felker & John Felker, her husband, to Jesse Bouley, NE 100, Mortgage #9, $1700.

* 1856 June 14 - Mortgage: Richard Patterson formerly of Garafraxa Twp. (Wellington Co., Ontario) & now Houston, Texas, Co., Missouri.
Richard Patterson let a mortgage to George Sunley & Norbert Sunley of Guelph, Executors of Henry Catchpole, late of Guelph, in the amount of £184 13 shillings & 10 pence half penny, plus interest.

* 1856 SEPTEMBER 16:
Geo. & Robert Sunley, Guelph, Ontario, Executors of the late Henry Catchpole,
Richard Patterson, Father & guardian of
Sarah, Elizabeth, £184.15, 15 shillings 10 pence.
Mary, Phoebe, James & Caroline Patterson
by Mary Ann his wife & only daughter of Henry Catchpole.

* 1856 September 16,
Grantor: Richard Patterson, Father & guardian of Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Phebe, James & Caroline Patterson by his wife Mary Ann, only daughter of Henry Catchpole.
Grantee: George & Robert Sunley, Guelph, Executors of the late Henry Catchpole, £184.15.10 1/4.
Note5: The original land holder David Black & wife Margaret Spiers-Felker were related to John Felker who married Mary Patterson. John Felker's farm is just a few farms north of the lot of land in the same Concession 6. - PJA.
Note6: Sarah Tovell married Geo Sunely, making her an in an in-law to her father's second wife's sister's (Mary Ann Catchpole) & niece Mrs. Mary Patterson Felker - who lent Geo. Sunley a mortgage. As well as William Sunley was executer of her father Henry Catchpole. - PJA 2010.

LICKING HISTORY
. 1850 to 57, Township 32, Range 19, Registered settlers: R. Patterson.
. 1856 - (Mrs. Martha Mitchell Nichol & 8 children moved from Kentucky to) Licking, though there was only a log store to mark the place.
. Licking takes its name from a buffalo lick within a quarter mile east, which was alive with deer up 1835. As early as 1826 2 men J Baldride & Barney Low, established their homes NW near the lick.
. First postmaster was John Sherrill, the mail line being from Caledonia to Springfield. The Delawares & Shawnees were visitors, making temporary villages along the creeks. the Indians continued to visit the country in the fall & winter, along after the settlements had rendered it too crowded. It is believed by the more credulous old settlers that they still returned covertly. There is a tradition that they have an enormous treasure of silver hidden away under the ground somewhere, to which they annually return to replenish their purses. As late as 1838 & later they were passing through here on the old White River trace or trail made by their forefathers; this passed through Licking. Osages, Delawres & Shawnees were the most familiar. Another trace crossed the county from Licking toward the east. Along these the Indians filed with their points, laden with pelts, fruits for the big city on the river; they sometimes spoke of Meramec Spring as the 'Big Lick Spring". There is no trace of any village in the county, however.
The first settlers came to Tex Co. about 1828. From that prior until the war broke out people came in rapidly & Houston & Locking were flashing little villages. At the close of the war few housed were left in the county. alternate raids by the contending parties left it a barren land, so that 1865 found the county almost a depopulated land.
Ref: History of Lacede …Texas Co., MI., 1889 March.

. 1857 - Licking & Houston were both on railway lines. The original survey was made by Jonathan Yates in 1857, & acknowledged by Mary Sherrill July 24 of that year. This Licking is at least 20 years older than Houston. Daniel Boone a frontiersmen, had lived in the region for a time as early as 1816.

[Texas County Farming After the Civil War:]
. 1865 Dec 1, Missouri Agriculture Report: There are thousands of acres yet to be had, under the homestead act or at $1.25 per acre. This land is of course not the best, but there is a good land yet to enter - great chances now for men of small means to emigrate to this country to get good homes for a small amount of money. Those wishing to purchase, here are some names of several improved farms for sale: Spencer Mitchell, 1 miles south o Licking, Valentine Sutton, town of Houston, Joel Sherrell, 6 miles north of Living. The above are the largest land holders.
Cattle & Hogs do well. I do not believe that we can be beat in any country in the State. Our cattle, the few left by the army, aw well as hogs, are fat in the woods. Cattle are feeding on Arthur's creek bottom, on blue grass, lying in mats. Bushels of acorns are lying on the ground, affording sufficient food for hogs all winter - more than our present number of hogs can eat.
Horses & Mules do well. the army has left us but few either. when we have any for sale, the market is at home.
Sheep: This is a great country for sheep, but there are few in county at this time in consequence of the army having been in the country. Thousands have been killed & taken off.
Signed, A M Wade, Clerk of Circuit & County Courts, Houston.

. 1865 Feb 22, WASHINGTONS BIRTH DAY on a scout out from The Lyk [Licking], had roads, seen no enemy, every 10 miles a house, bull of little ances? & a coupe wild barmen came thous the Pinery in camp near Hog Creek, the milk houses was attacked, the hen house ruined. Feb 25th. A lazy day for me, still in Lyk. I wish I was away from that infernal place.
. 1865 Feb 23, On our way back to The Lyk, one of the boys kissed a pig, ate dinner on our horses. Came through the Pinnery again, at The Lyk late in the evening, sassafras tea for super, hard tack & sour belly all over the camp.
. 1865 Feb 24. In Lying went out hunting, no game, made a raise? of some smoking tobacco, 15 its per pound. Lying no place for the 13th Regiment.
. 1865 Feb 25 - Had rainy day, me & John K went out foraging. captured eggs & a couple hens, past ourself as Bushwhackers. On guard that night, mine & John K. Saddle packets were stolen that night.
. 1865 Feb 26. Laking. Snows that night, I shall never forget the mud hol e of a Lyking.
. 1868 March 3. Returned [from forough] to The Lyk with the train, arrived there early in the evening, the mail out come in yet. Abram Lincoln takes the set for 4 more years, as President of the U.S.A.
Ref: Diary of Frederick A Kullman [a solider in the 13th Missouri Calvary, Union Army.]

* 1870 May 20 - Wellington Co., Ontario, Land Transactions., #498, Pages, 117-122 (True Record copy version). Summary:
Payment of £ 184. 13 s. 10 half pennies. A mortgage & interest paid for by me, to provided by the mutual love & affection to his children by his late wife of whom now survived,
Elizabeth married to one Wilson of Texas County,
& Mary Patterson & Phoebe, John & Caroline, all of Texas County.
Richard Patterson desires to provide the further support, maintenance & education of all such of these children, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Caroline & John Patterson or his now 3 surviving children & in consideration of the sum of 5 shillings of lawful money of Canada. ? Lot 7, Concession 6, Twp. of GUELPH, Wellington Co., Ontario 100 Acres to be sold in auction by Mary Patterson & his lawyers Norbert Sunley, to share equally amongst those of his surviving children.
Signed, Mary Patterson. Signed in duplicate, Richard Patterson
Witnessed by: 20 May, 1870, John M. Blankenship, Druggist of the Town of Houston, Co of Texas, Missouri.

. 1870 Jun 17 Census Upton Twp., Texas Co., Missouri,
Post Office: Plum Valley, Licking
Richard Patterson, Age 61 /b. 1809, Farmer, Value of real estate $800, Value of personal estate $300, Born England,
Phebe Patterson, 19 /b1851, Keeping house, b. Canada
Caroline Patterson, 16 /b 1854, at home, b. Canada
John Patterson, 18 /b 1852 at home, b. Canada.

. Richard Patterson settled in Texas County with his family. He settled on a farm about 2 miles northeast of Dykes farm, now Dykes, Missouri.

. Date not given. Missouri Land Purchase Registry, Springfield Extract, Vol 19, P199, Reel S00014.
Richard Patterson, 40 Acres, Section South West, Section 36, Town 31, Range 11, 'County not given.'

. HOUSTON, TEXAS CO., MISSOURI is the county capital. It is located on a hill, which terminates on the north in a bluff at Brushy Creek. St. Louis 140 miles SW & Kansas City 200 SE. The town was incorporated June 29, 1847, & postal service was extended the next January. - Richard Patterson settled in Texas county seat of Houston. During the Civil War (1861-65) the Houston courthouse was destroyed twice.

SPRINGS & CAVES at Houston - The Blankenship Springs are located 2 & one-quarter miles north of Houston, in a beautiful dell near Piney River. There are many springs, with as many different kinds of water, all of which unite & go sweeping over the pebbles, upon which is left a beautiful golden bronze. But few of these springs have been analyzed. They are in a romantic place, & the picturesque scenery cannot be excelled. A fine cave near the hotel, which has been used for keeping fresh meats, milk, butter, etc., is superior to anything ever used for that purpose. The temperature is 59 degrees. There are many other caverns, not only around Houston, but throughout the county.

. In 1860 the family came to Texas County, Missouri, settling on a farm some 2 miles NE of Dykes, Missouri,
Ref: Obituary of daughter Phebe Meyers, 1929 Jan 17, Houston Herald .
. CIVIL WAR: Alternate raids by the contending parties left it a barren waste, so that 1865 found the county almost de-populated. ...The Houston was destroyed twice during the war, & when peace was proclaimed she had not a single inhabitant, nor was there even a barn standing within her present limits. It took a long time to recover from this blow. For some time the site was occupied by a few people who lived in shanties hastily thrown up between showers, & a store, the proprietors of which handled only a few necessaries of life. But the lands surrounding the town were too valuable to remain idle very long, & those who had been driven away by the troubles of the times came back to their old homes & went to work. Political differences were forgotten, & new houses took the places of the old.
Ref: Goodspeed, 1889.

* Notwithstanding the above, Richard evidently was present in Houston because he paid his taxes from:
. 1861 - 1864, Texas Co., Missouri, Military Troops & Taxpayer List: Richard Patterson.
Note7: No designation is found for supporter of either Federal & Confederate sides during the Civil War. - PJ Ahlberg.
Ref: Goodspeed, 1889.

. 1875 Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri
Licking, formerly Buffalo Lick. The Ozark Mountains extends through this country. There is but little prairie land, all of which is good, & the bottoms on the streams are exceedingly rich.
Houston, the county seat, situated on Brushy Creek. Licking, 16 miles N NE of Houston is a growing village situated in a rich farming district. It has 1 steam-mill, 3 stores, 2 churches ME & Meth. South, Population of about 200.
Plum Valley, a post office 10 miles WNW of Houston.

. Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
* Borough of Kings Lynn.

Died:
Note: Verify death date, conflicts with Census Jun 17th, 1871.

Buried:

Richard married Mary Ann CATCHPOLE on 20 Jan 1841 in Guelph, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Henry CATCHPOLE, The Elder and Mary Caroline COTTON, .3) was born on 6 Apr 1823 in Wangford By Southwold, Blything, Suffolk Co., England; died on 5 Feb 1855 in Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Ann is the daughter of Mary Caroline Cotton & Henry Catchpole Sr.

. Did Mary Ann Catchpole Patterson die of childbirth in Alabama?
(Research in Wellington Co., Ontario has produced no death or gravesite information.) - PJA 2010.
Son John James, 1890 Census of Centralia,
John James Patterson records he was born Jan. 1856 in Alabama. - PJA.

. The Richard Patterson family Bible lists the following children:

1. Kenery Catchpole Paterson, Female, born Jan 11, 1842, Guelph, Ontario
2. Noah Paterson, Male, born July 3, 1843, Guelph
3. Sarah Paterson, Female, born Sep 28, 1844, Guelph
4. Elizabeth Paterson, Female, born May 10, 1846, Guelph
5. Mary Paterson, Female, born Dec 28, 1848, Guelph
6. Pheby Paterson, Female, born July 28, 1850, Guelph
7. James Paterson, Male, born March 22, 1852, Guelph
8 Caroline Paterson, Female, born March 10, 1854, Guelph.  
Ref: Received this information from Jewell Scott, a granddaughter of Caroline Patterson.

* Died [1855 Feb 5th]:
On the 5th instant, in the Township of Garafraxa, Mary Ann Patterson, wife of Mr. Richard Patterson, of the Ball Tavern, Garafraxa, aged 38 years.
Ref: The Globe newspaper, Toronto, published 1855 Feb 17.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg, U.E., - -

Birth:


Died:
Aged 31y 9m 30d.

Notes:

Married:
at 12 noon. WIT: Henry Catchpool & Eliz Nichols, Rev. Ben Slight, Westley Minister.