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- . 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. - - - [1]
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1854 - 1939 (85 years)