Brief Life History of Harrison Petway
When Harrison Petway Patterson was born in 1861, in Clay, Tennessee, United States, his father, James M Patterson, was 42 and his mother, Eliza Wilmot Harrison, was 28. He married Julie Elvira Heard on 24 March 1881, in Clay, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Hopkins, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Justice Precinct 1, Hopkins, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 12 August 1937, in Hopkins, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Sulphur Springs, Hopkins, Texas, United States.
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- H P Patterson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Harrison Petway Patterson - Government record: birth-name: Petway Harmon Patterson
- H P Patterson, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1861 · Texas Secedes from the United States
On February 1, 1861, Texas seceded from the United States. On March 2, 1861, they had joined with the Confederate States of America.
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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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