by Hartley, Elizabeth J.

See previous entry: Little Home Histories, Part 52 -- The Patterson History.

After Uncle Charles Livezey moved away from the farm, the dog finally got to our home. Grandfather and Grandmother came to live with father and mother. Grandmother lived only a few Weeks and passed away 10th month 1897. The dog remembered grandmother as she fed him so often. After he came to our house he came in and greeted all but soon went to the hall door and whined. He found all but grandmother. He died a few years later.

It appears that a number of Patterson families moved from North Carolina to Ohio and settled first at Concord Meeting at Colerain, Ohio, then moved to Stillwater monthly meeting and later on, some moved to Ridge monthly meeting. Joseph Patterson married Hannah Marmon. The man who gave the ground for Ridge monthly meeting, Lemuel Patterson, married Hannah Arnold, and lived in a house by the water works.

A son Joshua Patterson married Amy Broomall. Their son, Barclay, married Georgia Connard. Benjamin Patterson Sr. married Jane Bailey, and later married Jane Lowery. The first wife had ten children. One child, Wm. Henry Patterson, married (1) Carry Outland, (2) Elizabeth Griffith-French, no issue. Wm. Henry and Carry had two children. Ernest Patterson, a contractor, married Florence Bailey. They live in Barnesville. A son, Benjamin, married Anna Hardesty. They had four children. Frederic and Edward live in Barnesville. Frederic is an electrician and Edward is manager of east Main Street M.K. grocery store -- besides being prominent in other affairs.

Issaac Patterson married Rebecca Crew, 9-20-1820 and they had eight children, four died in 1836 of scarlet fever. Two of them died within a week. Their son Eli married (1) Pharaba Bailey, (2) Tabitha Bailey. Eli lived just east of Ridge school house near a spring. He later built a nice house by the road where another house now stands. The first one burned in the 1890s.

Louisa Patterson (daughter of Eli and Pharaba) married Jesse I. Doudna. They had four children. Wallace and Ethel lived and Wallace has two children and two grandchildren. Ethel married Joe Wylie, and they have three living children and five grandchildren.

Ruthanna (called Ruthanner) Patterson married Joel Bailey. David Patterson married (1) Eunice Starbuck, (2) Sarah Stewart. The first wife had four children. A daughter, Eva Luzerne, married Allen Bailey. They had seven children. The second wife had seven children and they live in the west.

The Ridge School house was built out of bricks out of the meeting house at Somerton.

Source: Written by: Elizabeth J. Hartley.

See next entry: Little Home Histories, Part 54 -- Joseph Patterson.

For the table of contents and first entry in this series, please see: Little Home Histories, Part 01 -- Table of Contents and Introduction.

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