Brief Life History of Elizabeth Sophronia
When Elizabeth Sophronia Patterson was born on 26 July 1831, in Alabama, United States, her father, George Washington Patterson, was 40 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth McCollum, was 36. She married Allen Butcher Dillard on 2 September 1847, in San Augustine, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 1, San Saba, Texas, United States in 1880. She died on 10 December 1908, in Uvalde, Texas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Ditch Cemetery, Second Crossing, Uvalde, Texas, United States.
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- Elizebeth S Dillard in household of Allen B Dillard, "United States Census, 1900"
- Elizabeth Patterson, "Texas Marriages, 1837-1973"
- Elizabeth Sophronia Patterson Dillard, "Find A Grave Index"
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1832 · The Black Hawk War
Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
1846
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Smith, Texas, United States
1856
Historical Boundaries: 1856: San Saba, Texas, United States
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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