Brief Life History of James Robert
When James Robert Patterson was born in 1851, in White, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Herington Patterson, was 39 and his mother, Mariah Lindsey Edwards, was 27. He married Mary Jane Blassingame-Patterson on 5 April 1876, in Greenwood, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Sugarloaf Township, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States in 1860 and Hartford, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 22 May 1885, in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 34.
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Sources (7)
- James Patterson in household of Jas Patterson, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Robert Patterson - Published information: birth-name: James Robert Patterson
- James R. Patterson, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
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1851
Historical Boundaries - 1851: Sebastian, Arkansas, United States
1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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