Eugenia Patterson

Brief Life History of Eugenia

When Eugenia Patterson was born on 4 April 1847, in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States, her father, David Baker Patterson, was 31 and her mother, Cornelia Miner Sheffield, was 31. She married Warren Hannum Jr in August 1869, in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870 and Grant, Wisconsin, United States in 1910. She died on 27 June 1915, in Lancaster, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Lancaster, Grant, Wisconsin, United States.

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Family Time Line

Warren Hannum Jr
1824–1920
Eugenia Patterson
1847–1915
Marriage: August 1869
Etta Frances Hannum
1871–1928
Myrthe Hannum
1873–
Mercie Hannum
1875–1942
Chester A Hannum
1877–1942
Jessie Hannum
1881–1968
Warren Jay Hannum
1884–1949

Sources (17)

  • Eugenia Patterson in household of David B Patterson, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Eugenia Patterson Hannum, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Eugenia Patterson in entry for Mae Hannum, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998"

World Events (8)

1854 · The Creation of the Republican Party

A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

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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