Katherine Pauline Patterson Hicks

Female30 March 1923–20 May 1985

Brief Life History of Katherine Pauline

When Katherine Pauline Patterson Hicks was born on 30 March 1923, in Gaston, North Carolina, United States, her father, George Washington Patterson, was 23 and her mother, Minnie Elmina Howell, was 18. She lived in Gastonia Township, Gaston, North Carolina, United States in 1940 and Clover, York, South Carolina, United States in 1985. She died on 20 May 1985, in Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in York, South Carolina, United States.

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Family Time Line

George Washington Patterson
1900–1967
Minnie Elmina Howell
1904–1964
Katherine Pauline Patterson Hicks
1923–1985
Marvin Lee Patterson
1926–1996
Bobby Gene Patterson
1931–2006
Carroll Neill Patterson
1938–1959

Sources (6)

  • Catherin Patterson in household of Ed Patterson, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Katherine Pauline Patterson Hicks, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
  • Katherine Pauline Patterson Hicks, "North Carolina, Department of Archives and History, Index to Vital Records, 1800-2000"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (4)

World Events (8)

1927

Age 4

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1929

Age 6

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

1941

Age 18

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

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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