Notes:

Further verification required.
Additional Norfolk Co. Archdeacon's Transcripts:
1807 Jul 25, St. NICHOLAS Parish, Kings Lynn.
Widow Anne Patter, Age 75/ b. 1732. - - -

Died:
Needs verification: St. Margaret Parish, Widow Mary Patterson, Line 580.

Family/Spouse: John PATTERSON, Sr.. John was born est 1763 in King's Lynn, Co. Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1784 Aug 18,
St. Margaret Parish, Lynn, Norfolk Co., England

. 1851 Census Castle Rising, Co. Norfolk, England
Freebridge Lynn, Hillington sub registration distct.
John Patterson, Lodger, Widower, Age 66 /1784. Born Norfolk, Lynn, Cabinet Maker.

. 1851 Register of Electors 1851
John Patterson, King's Lynn All Saints, Norfolk, England, Western Division.

. 1861 Census South Lynn, All Saints Parish, Co. Norfolk, England
District Union Workhouse Kings Lynn
Jno. Patterson, Widower, age 78/ 1783, Joiner, Born, Kings Lynn, Norfolk. - - -

Lynn is Celtic for pool. Known variously as Lynn, Kings Lynn/ Lynn Regis All Saints & also South Lynn All Saints beginning in 1558.

. 1792 April - Captain George Vancouver, left in his ship Discovery to Northwest coast o America. Vancouver was from Kings Lynn, as was also the local hero, Lord Horatio Nelson.

. 1784 Aug 18 - St. Margaret Parish, Lynn, County Norfolk, England, pg. 28.
Baptism of John Patterson,
s/o Mary & John Patterson.

. 1803 Jan 11 - Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures
20 pence, Wm. Monement, Master, of Kings Lynn, Co of Norfolk, Cork Cutter, John Patterson, Apprentice.
( 1835 - Wm Monument, 79 Norfolk St, Freebridge, Lynn.)

. 1831 Norfolk criminal Registers: John Patterson, Epiphany 1831, Feloniusly braking a Thresking machine, imprisonment 3 months. (8 others also charged.) VERIFY identity from 'Norfolk.'

. 1841 Census, Swaffham Twp., Durham Co., England
Sarah Patterson, Age 20/ b 1821 Durham Co., Dress maker, Theatre Yard (on Theatre Lane),
John Patterson, Age 55 Durham Co, Cabinet in I. (?)
Sarah Patterson, Age 55 Durham Co.

. 1851 Census, Castle Rising, Norfolk Co., England, (Freebridge, Lynn.)
John Patterson, Age 67, b1784, Northfolk Lynn, Cabinet maker, Widower, Lodger.

. 1842, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847 Aug 10th, 1850, 1851 &1853 Register of Electors, Norfolk, Western Division;
Lynn King's, South Lynn All Saints:
Voter: John Patterson, 28 Checker St., Lynn, in this parish, Freehold House, Owner's Location 29 Checker Street.

. 1861 Kings Lynn, Norfolk Census
South Lynn All Saints Parish:
Union Workhouse Kings Lynn: John Patterson, widower, age 78, Profession: Joiner, from Kings Lynn, Norfolk.

Church of England Death Registration:
John Patterson, Abode Work House, buried Oct 28 1861, Age 78, buried by Dr Leeper. - - -

Died:
Burial Work House.

John married Elizabeth HUDSON - HOTSON on 22 Oct 1806 in Horning, Norfolk Co., England. Elizabeth (daughter of John HOTSON and Ann BRUNTON) was born in 1786 in Horning, Norfolk Co., England; died on 2 Jan 1825 in Hockham, Norfolk Co., England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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:

. Baptism Registration Belaugh, Aylsham District, Co. Norfolk Norwich Diocese, Belaugh Parish Register of Archdeacon Transcripts 1600-1812:

. 1812 May 24, James Patterson, son of John & Elizabeth his wife, late Hotson, baptized, by John Prowett, Rector Belaugh Parish.
Note: Found on last page of Parish Register (Brother Richard Patterson is on the previous page for 1811.) - PJ Ahlberg 2018. - - -

Birth:
s/o John Patterson & Elizabeth his wife, late Hotson.

Notes:

Grandparents Mary & Henry Catchpole lived in Guelph, Ontario - which was a large, thriving industrial town. So it is possible they Mary Ann Catchpole Patterson went to Guelph to have a better access to a doctor for the delivery of her children. But assuredly they would have lived on Richard's farm in West Garafraxa Township. As it was, a doctor live a few farms from Richard Patterson's farm.

Evidence for the death of Kenery Catchpole Patterson & Noah Patterson are:

* No mention in the WILL of her grandfather Henry Catchpole,
dated, 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.

* Wellington Co., Ontario, Land Transactions., #498, Pages, 117-122 (i.e. 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.
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, USA.

Note: Kenery name is note found, but could the spelling be Kearney? Further search required. - - -

Birth:
Alt. Name: Kenery Catchpole Patterson

Died:
Not present on the census with her family.

Notes:

. Noah Patterson, Born 3 Jul 1843 Guelph or W Garafraxa Twp., Wellington County, Ontario.
Grandparents lived in Guelph & Richard Patterson had his farm in West Garafraxa Twp., between today's Belwood & Smiths Corners.

X Ref: Evidence for the death of Noah Catchpole Patterson & Noah Patterson whose names are absent:

* WILL of grandfather Henry Catchpole,
dated, 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.

* 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 & 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.
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, USA. - - -

Birth:
Noah was named after the brother of his grandmother, Mary Cotton Catchpole.

Died:
Not present on the census with his family.

Notes:

. Ontario Marriage Registration, Wellington Co., 21 Nov 1859,
William Smeaton, born Scotland, Residence Garafraxa Twp., Age 20 / 1839,
Son of Catharine & Alexander Smeaton,
married Mary Ann Paterson, Born Lynn, England, 21y /1838,
Residence Garafraxa Twp.,
daughter of Mary Ann & Rich Paterson.

Verify: Date of Landing 1856 in Missouri vs. Marriage 1859 in Ontario.
Additionally daughter Annie Smeaton Griffus did she landed in the United Stated in 1865, although perhaps she was referring to arriving from in Michigan from Missouri.

. 1859 Nov 21 - Ontario Marriage Registration, Wellington Co.,
William Smeaton, born Scotland, Residence Garafraxa Twp., Wellington Co., Age 20 / 1839,
Son of Catharine & Alexander Smeaton,
married Sarah Paterson, Born Lynn, England, 21y / 1838,
Residence Garafraxa Twp., daughter of Mary Ann & Richd Paterson
Wit: Geo. Johnston, Fergus, ON.

Note: Marriage of daughter Sarah Patterson - There 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.
Her father, Richard Patterson, was born in Lynn & landed in Ontario by 1834. KING'S LYNN is usually shortened to Lynn. (Daughter Sarah Patterson was, of course, born in 1844 in Ontario.)
. Compare, Biography of husband Wm. Smeaton, says they were married Oct 1, 1858.

. Age 19 Years.
Loving wife of William whom she married November 21, 1859 in Canada. Devoted mother of Mary Ann. Dear daughter of Richard & Mary Ann Catchpole Patterson.
Cause of Death: Dropsy.

Note: Dropsy: An old term for the swelling of soft tissues due to the accumulation of excess water.
In years gone by, a person might have been said to have dropsy. Today one would be more descriptive & specify the cause. Thus, the person might have edema due to congestive heart failure. Dropsy has been recognized as a sign of underlying disease of the heart, liver, or kidneys, or of malnutrition.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg, U.E. - - -

Birth:
1837 Census Richd. Patterson is father & guardian.

Died:
Dropsy. Aged 19 years. Alt DOD: 27 Nov 1863.

Buried:
Saginaw, MI, Lot 940.

Sarah married Richard WILLIAM SMEATON on 21 Nov 1859 in Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario. Richard was born on 14 Jul 1839 in Crieff, Perthsire Co., Scotland; died on 4 Oct 1887 in Brady, Saginaw Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Plum Valley, Missouri
A discontinued post-office, (1867-1910) & trading-hamlet in Piney Township; now completely abandoned. Named by William Wilson, who found wild plums growing in the wilderness. He later planted more trees.

. 1880 Pinery Twp., Texas Co., Missouri
Bill Wilson, b 1840, Missouri
Elisabeth Wilson, b 1842 Canada
William Wilson, b. 1871 Missouri
John D. Wilson, born 1872, Missouri
F E Wilson, female, b 1872, Missouri
Joseph Wilson, b 1877, Missouri
Alfred Wilson, b 1879, Missouri.

. 1899 May 11 - Mrs J W Wilson visited her daughter Mrs Williams of Big Pinery, Saturday & Sunday.
Ref: Houston Herald Newspaper.

. 1920 Census, Texas Co., Missouri, Born 1847 Canada, age 73, married
Spouse: James W. Wilson
Daughter, Clara M. Wilson.

. Missouri Certificate of Death #7452
Elizabeth Wilson
Died. 19 Feb 1930, at Bucusus, Piney Co., Texas Co., MO.
Aged 83y 9m 2d., born Toronto, Canada,
Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Patterson, both of England.
Died of Bronchopneumonia & old Age.
Burial at Emery Cemetery, 19 Feb. 1830. - - -

Birth:
Alt Spelling: Elizsabeth. (Guelph is largest nearby city.)

Died:
Aged 83y 9m 2d = 17 May 1846, COD: Bronchopneumonia & old age.

Buried:
Houston, MO. Red Granite Monument, Mother Elizabeth Wilson.

Elizabeth married James William BILL WILSON, .1 on 3 Jan 1869 in Texas Twp., Missouri. James was born on 7 Jan 1847 in Boiling Springs, Missouri; died on 16 Jul 1935 in Bucyrus, Piney Twp., Texas Co., Missouri; was buried in Emery Chapel Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary is the daughter of Mary Ellen Catchpole & Richard Patterson.

Note1: Mary Patterson's year of birth changes with every census. She gives her age as 22 on marriage, making her born 1850. The 1851-2 Census gives Mary's DOB 1848. Her tombstone in Parklawn Cemetery, 2845 Bloor St W Etobicoke, gives her DOB as December 28, 1848 & is confirmed in Richard Patterson's Bible. The children are listed on this stone.

US CIVIL WAR:
. 1856 Jun 14 - Houston, Missouri, Father Richard Patterson resided here. Although Mary Patterson was clearly born in Ontario, her family referred to her as an American. This would indicate she had lived in Missouri with her father & siblings.
Granddaughter Marie Felker recalled that Mary Patterson said the reason the family moved up north to Canada was because of the coming civil war which was from 1861-65. In some towns in the southern States, you would be run out if your favoured President Lincoln. Mary was 7 years old in 1856 in Missouri. Mary would only have been 13y at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 & Catchpole grandparents are already dead. Notwithstanding Mary Patterson was married Jan 1, 1872 to John Felker in Belwood, Ontario.
The farm on Garafraxa was pretty far from anywhere, except for the Methodist log cabin which was a short walk away. Douglas, as Belwood was formerly known, was known for its cattle which they would ship by train to Toronto. - PJA

. 1857 Feb 9, Lot 18, Con 7, bought by Andrew Patterson, 18 rods x 8 rods. VERIFY IDENTITY, if any to Mary Patterson Felker.
Ref. Archives of Ontario Reel 3147, Deeds West Garafraxa.

. Ontario Marriage Registration # 154, Wellington Co. , Ontario
1872 Jan 3,
John FELKER, 26, widower, yeoman, Garafraxa, same,
s/o John & Henrietta,
married Mary PATTERSON, 22, Ontario, Garafraxa,
d/o John & Mary Ellen Patterson,
witn: Frederick & Jane FELKER of Garafraxa, 3 Jan 1872 at John FELKER's home, Garafraxa.
by Rev R L Tindale.
Note2: Richard Patterson in 1856 names Mary Patterson as his daughter. This marriage registration appears to have been filled out by the Felkers, rather than Mary Patterson herself. Her brother is John James Patterson. As well in his WILL of 1853, their grandfather mentions his grandchildren Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Phoebe, James and Caroline Patterson, children of Mary Ann, only daughter of Henry Catchpole. - PJA.

. Richard Patterson assigned land to be sold: Signed, Mary Patterson. Signed in duplicate, Richard Patterson, & Witnessed by: 20 May, 1870, John M. Blankership, Druggist of the Town of Houston, Co of Texas, Missouri, USA.
Note3: This is the Wellington Court copy. It is worded as if Mary Patterson were also present in Texas Co., but more likely Mary signed & notarized in Guelph, Ontario.

. West Garafraxa Instruments 497, Folio 116 & Instrument 500, Folio 126, #114
Mary Patterson, Spinster, let a mortgage, registered 20 June, 1870, "as No. 89" to Jessie Bowley & wife. This money is now entitled to be paid to the then Mary Patterson.
Discharged mortgage 18th May, 1872, at 1:20 o'clock.
Witnesses: Morris Wilcocks Saunders, (Barrister.)
Henry Wm. Patterson of the Town of Guelph, Barrister, (Relationship or coincidence?) Signed at Guelph, Ontario.

More W. Garafraxa Land transfers:
Lot 24 North half. Con 6 W & Lot 27 N half of W half lot 26 on the 7th Concession.

. 1876 November, 15th, 50 Acres & premises, $800. Signed at Fergus, Ontario.
Society & Savings Bank mortgage paid by Registry No.
Ref: Instrument 1581, Folio 546, Archives of Ontario, GS 315.6

. Witness: Ontario Marriage Certificate 11524-76, Thomas BOLAN, 23, farmer, Canada, West Garafraxa, s/o Thomas Boland & Mary KENNEDY, married Matilda Ferrier,, 18, Canada, West Garafraxa, d/o Alexander Ferrier, & Sarah Markel,
WITNESSES: William McLellan of Erin & Mary FELKER of Garafraxa, 19 Jan 1876, at Presbyterian Manse, West Garafraxa.
Note4: Their Ferrier neighbours were Scots Presbyterian. - PJA.

. Garafraxa is a Canadian native word for Land of the Puma. The mountain lion is also native to the Great Lakes basin. - PJA.

. LETTER FROM PHOEBE MYERS TO SISTER CAROLINE SITTON:
About the wintertime of 1889, Mary Felker visited her sister Phoebe Myers in Lynch, Missouri:
... Sister Mary came out to see us last winter. She is a nice neat plain industrious woman and good company. I miss her so much when she left. Oh how I wish you would come to see us this winter.
Note5: Please see Phoebe Patterson Myers for a copy of the full letter.
Note6: Daughter Lela Felker was just a few months old, so it is likely she was with her mother also. - PJA.

. 1901 Census Erin Village, WELLINGTON South 126
Interestingly this census also gives different birth dates for entire family.
Felker, John, M, Head, M, Sep 15, 1842, Aged 58, labourer, Methodist.
Felker, Mary, F , Wife, Married, Oct , Aged 49
Felker, Carrie, F, Daughter, Single, Jan 12,1876, Aged 24
Felker, Frederick, Male, son, single, Aug 14, 1877, Aged 23
Felker, Margaret, F, Daughter, Single, Dec 4, 1881, Aged 19
Felker, Neil, M, Son, Single, Sep 11, 1883, Aged 17
Felker, John, M, Boarder, Married, b. Oct 15, 1876, Aged 24, painter.

. 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
. 1837 July 6, 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.
. 1872 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.
Ref: Archives of Ontario Vol OI-I, 1821-1948, Reel 1480, p 103.

. Book I, Instrument 64, dated 1843 Aug 4, Registered 1846 Jun 26
Lewis Felker & wife as to Dower, Grantee John Watt, 50 acres W quarter, dated 1856 Dec 31 at 11 o'clock.
. Grantor Mary Felker & Lewis Felker, sold to James Ferrier £150, 50 A NW Half of SW half Lot 7, Con 7. [i.e. Richard Patterson is located on adjoint Felker property. - PJA. ]

Ontario Land Registry Office Abstract Book 256, Plan 174
Village of Erin, Wellington County, p7
. Lot 2, Con 10 Part Lot 14, Murray & Beattie's St.
Lewis Moffats Murray & Beatties Survey
. 1892 Nov 12, Bargain&Sale, Agnes Spears widow, John & Robt Wilson, Exors., David Spiers, Decd., to Mary Felker, part 40 per., Also right of way & others.
. 1907 Feb 15, Mary & John Felker, to Wm. H Musgrave, $300, called Lot 13.

. Ontario Death Registration # 54 016547
Mary Patterson Felker, died 1 Mar 1935, Aged 86 years 2 months,
Born 28 Dec 1848, Ontario, Housewife, widow.
Place of death Meaford, Ontario, 9 months, 3 days (=31 May 1934.)
Informant: Miss Carrie Felker, Meaford, Ont., Eldest Daughter.*
Died of Cerebral hemorrhage stroke. Duration 3 months.
Burial at Park Lawn, Toronto.

Note7: Meaford, is on Georgian Bay, which is part of Lake Ontario. Sisters Carrie Felker & Mrs. Margaret Felker Knight lived together. - PJA

Obituary:
. 1935 Mar 13, Erin: A former resident of this village passed away at the home of her daughter, at Meaford, on March 4th, in the person of Mary Felker, wife of the late John Felker in her 86th year. The family left Erin about 30 years ago & will be remember by many of our readers.
Ref: Georgetown Herald.

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

Died:
Aged 86y 2m. COD: Cerebral hemorrhage & influenza.

Buried:
W. Toronto.

Mary married John FELKER, .18 on 3 Jan 1872 in Belwood, Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario. John was born on 9 Mar 1845 in Belwood, Garafraxa West Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died on 26 Nov 1921 in Toronto, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Parklawn / Humbervale Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Miss Phebe was married 6 months after the death of her father & one month before her sister Caroline also married. Guelph, Ontario was the closest largest town at the time of her birth. Her grandparents Mary & Henry Catchpole lived in Guelph.

. 1852 Census Garafraxa Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario:
Pheby Paterson, Age 2 /b.1840.
. 1870 Census Upton Twp., Texas Co., MO. Phebe Patterson, 19 years /b1851, Keeping house, Born in Canada, both parents foreign born.

. Phoebe & John resided at Ellis Prairie which is about 8 miles northwest of Houston where her father Richard Patterson lived.

. State of Missouri, County of Texas. This is to certify that I solemnized the rite of matrimony between John S Myers & Miss Phebe Patterson, this July 2,1871. Signed, James Sitton, J.P. Recorded July 29, 1871.

. 1880 Census, Lynch, Texas Co., Missouri
John S Myers, Phoebe, Wilburn M, Mary C., Nancy E Patterson, Missouri.

. 1910 Census, Lynch Texas Co, Missouri
John S Myers, Phebe, Herbert, Grandson, age 12/ b 1898, Missouri.
. Census 1910: Phebe Myers [Patterson] born Canada, Parents born England. Married 30 years / 1870.

. 1920? - Jan 2nd - 5th Census, Lynch, MO.
Herbert R Myers, 22 y /1898 married, General Farming
Gladis, 20 y / 1909 married. b Missouri.
John S Myers and wife Phebe Myers.

. Ellis Prairie, A village northwest of Houston in Lynch Township. A post-office since 1879. Named for Washington Asa Ellis, a pioneer in the region.

* LETTER. To Caroline Patterson Sitton, Ellis Prairie, MO., October [Estimated about 1890].
Dear Sister. I received your welcome letter & was glad to hear from you. We are all well & I hope these few lines will find you the same. I think you have had quite a ramble. I guess you will settle down now, but if you do take another wild goose chase, you must let us know where you are. I was glad to hear you are getting along as well as you are. I have lost one child since I wrote to you. It would have been 2 years old if it had lived. It is hard for us to give up our children. Not our will be done but the great Creator's who gives all we have.

We are getting along very well. We have two farms. We live at the old place now. We have a good house. A frame house, seven rooms, 2. upstairs & 4 downstairs. We built our new house west of the old one. We use the old house for a wash house & smoke house. We have a well close to the kitchen door. The old folks is getting along tolerable well. They are not able to work much now.

John & Monroe has planted & tended their corn for the last 3 years. They tend their garden & berry patches themselves. They are getting very childish. Grandma, that is what I always call her, can talk as much as she use to & grandpa jokes & is as funny as ever. Him & John has gone to town today.

Ella & Laura is gone to school. Monroe is teaching school about three miles from home. He boards at home. I am alone. I wish you was here with me. I can talk so much better than I can write. Brother John is in Lewis Co., Washington. He settled on a new place. He wrote he had built a very good house & had some new land cleared up. He has lots of help. They have 4 boys big enough to work on the farm. Sister Mary [nee Patterson, Mrs. Felker] came out to see us last winter. She is a nice neat plain industrious woman & good company. I miss her so much when she left. Oh how I wish you would come to see us this winter. Aunt Sarah Findley got her arm broke last winter & she can't us her had yet. She is getting so old & feeble. She is nearly blind. Uncle Ezek is not able to work much now.
I will send you 2 pieces. The pink is Ellas & Lauras' dresses & the black is mine. I will send you more next time. I will close. Tell the children to write. Good by. Write soon.

[Phebe Myers to Caroline Sitton [estimated period around 1890 i.e., Monroe grown, maybe 18. - Jewel Sitton.]

Page 5.
I will send you the picture with this letter. If you don't get it I wish you would let me know. When Monroe comes home I want to get his Ella & Laura's pictures all taken together. If I do I will send you one. Now don't forget to send me yours Cicero & all the Children pictures. Aunt Sarah & Uncle Ezkiel is alive yet. They are nearly blind. Aunt Sarah said to tell you seem see?
Ref: Tom Treat. 2009.

. OBITUARY:
Mrs Phebe Myers, whose maiden name was Patterson, was born in Canada July 28, 1850. In 1860 the family came to Texas County, Missouri, settling on a farm some 2 miles NE of Dykes, MO., where she grew to womanhood. On July 2, 1871, she was united in the holy bonds of Matrimony to J S Myers. To this union 5 child were born, 3 of who preceded here to the Great Beyond, one dying in infancy. Mary C Myers died Dec 21 1884, at the age of 11 years & Dr. Wm. Monroe Myers died Nov 1, 1903 at the age of 31 years.
Ella, now the wife of H W Evans, resides on a farm near Roubidoux in the western part of Texas County, & Laure, wife of Roy Clark, lives on a farm with her family at Yelm, Washington.
Herbert Myers, a grandson, who Mrs. Myers reared from childhood, lives on a farm with his family adjoining the home place where she spent many happy days.
Lizze Wilson, a sister lives at Plum Valley, MO., & another sister, if not dead, resides in Canada.
Aunt Phebe was converted in 1874 & later joined the Baptist church at Plum Valley, Mo., & has always lived a devoted, consistent Christian life. After a brief illness, she died on Jan 9, 1929, making her age at the time of death 78 years 5 months & 11 days.
Aunt Phebe, as she was familiarly known, was loved & respected by all who know her, & number her friends & by her acquaintances.
She was laid to rest at Emery cemetery by the side of those of her family who had preceded her, surrounded by a large number of relatives & friends. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Tillery of Houston.
Card of Thanks. We wish to thank all our relatives & friends who so kindly assisted us by act & deed during the sickness & death of our dear wife & mother. May God bless her. J S Myers, Ella Evans & Family, Herbert Myers & Family. - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: Phoebe, Pheby Eve Patterson.

Died:
Aged 77y 6m 16d. COD: Influenza.

Buried:
Bucyrus, Texas Co., MO.

Phebe married John Silas MYERS on 2 Jul 1871 in Texas Twp., Missouri. John (son of Burgess MYERS and Winifred WINNIE SITTON) was born on 22 Aug 1851 in Winston County, Alabama; died on 23 Nov 1932 in Lynch, Texas Co., Missouri; was buried in Emery Chapel Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1870 Census Licking, MO.,
John Patterson 18 y / b 1852. Born Canada. Parents foreign England.

. 1876 Census Twp. 31, Texas Co., Missouri
John Patterson, Mary A Patterson, Reuben Patterson, under 10 years.

. 1880 Jun 26 Census, Upton, Texas Missouri,
John Patterson, Age 28 /b 1852 Canada, his parents both born in England;
Wife, Mary A, b 1856 Alabama, her father B. Georgia, Mother b. Alabama, married;
Albert B Patterson, age 9 mo., b. Sept. 1879 Missouri;
Reuben A Patterson, age 4, b 1876 Missouri;
Oliver L Patterson, age 2, b 1878 Missouri.

apparently they moved by:
. 1890 Jun 2 Census Centralia, Washington. . - .

. Civil War Battle & Massacre of Centralia, MO:
On the morning of September 27, 1864 some 50 Rebel bushwhackers, some dressed in captured Union uniforms, under Capt. "Bloody Bill" Anderson rode into the village of Centralia, whose population was less than 100 persons. Centralia in 864 had about a dozen homes, 2 small hotels & a couple of general stores. Most of the 60 or so citizens were Southern sympathizers. While waiting for the train, they terrorized local civilians, robbing & burning stores & killing a civilian who had attempted to defend a young woman. The stage from Columbia came in to the community & they robbed the passengers. During the Civil War was very divided & the state had the third most battles during the war. Jesse James & brothers were present at this battle. One can image the simmering atmosphere that prevailed in Centralia long after the Civil War was 'won'.

. The High Life in Missouri, Not Just For Samuel Clements.
The question of whether slavery would be expanded into Missouri lead to a bloody border war. Bands of Missouri bushwhacker & Kansas jayhawkers crossed the boarder to loot & lynch during & continued after the late Civil War. Missouri furnished volunteers for both the Union & Confederate armies.

. Outlaw, Jesse James born in Kearney, Clay Co., Missouri, during the Civil War, he joined the Confederate guerrilla band known as Quantrill's Raiders in 1863 or 1864. Returning to Missouri in 1865, Jesse & his brother Frank found that, although the Civil War was officially over, Missourians were still belligerent. In 1866 the James brothers joined forces with the Younger brothers to form an outlaw band. For 16 years Jesse James & his gang robbed trains & banks in Missouri, Kentucky & the midwestern states.
Jesse James died 1882. - PJA.
Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

Birth:
- he used his name John & James at various occasions.

Died:
John is not on the 1900 Census with his family.

John married Mary Ann MYERS, .1 on 28 Mar 1875 in Upton Twp., Texas Co., Missouri. Mary (daughter of Burgess MYERS and Winifred WINNIE SITTON) was born on 16 Jan 1856 in Alabama; died on 7 Aug 1922 in Raymond, Pacific Co., Washington; was buried in Washington Lawn 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

Caroline married Cicero Silas SITTON, .1 on 6 Aug 1871 in Upton Twp., Texas Co., Missouri. Cicero (son of James Fitz JIM SITTON, .1 and Sarah Ann SALLY WILSON) was born on 21 Sep 1850 in Walker County, Alabama; died on 6 Jul 1932 in Pyote, Ward County, State of Texas; was buried on 7 Jul 1932 in Pyote Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]