When John Spencer Patterson was born on 28 July 1856, in Arkansas, United States, his father, James Herington Patterson, was 43 and his mother, Mariah Lindsey Edwards, was 31. He married Katherine Hunt about 1880, in Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hartford, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States in 1870 and Choctaw Nation Reservation, Pushmataha, Oklahoma, United States in 1900. He died in 1902, at the age of 46, and was buried in Hartshorne, Pittsburg, Oklahoma, United States.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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