John Jackson Patterson (1846 - 1914)

Born 1 Dec 1846 in Marshall County, Alabama

Husband of Mary Elizabeth Jaco — married 19 Dec 1866 in Marshall County, Alabama

Descendants

Died 5 Jul 1914 at age 67 in Marshall County, Alabama

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Biography

John Jackson Patterson was the fourth child of Spencer and Mary Elizabeth (Johnson) Patterson.^[1] He was born in Marshall County, Alabama, where his father obtained a land patent in 1849.^[2] Life between Sand Mountain and the Tennessee River was hard but good. So much depended on the weather along with the hard work of man. John and his five brothers learned how to grow crops and care for livestock. His three sisters would undoubtedly learn to cook, sew, quilt and mend. Not much had changed from the last generation and not much would change for John Jackson Patterson’s generation. Families were close because they needed each other to survive.

The Civil War was devastating the nation by the time John turned 18, but the month of his birthday he enlisted as a private in the 62nd Alabama Infantry, Company K in Montgomery, Alabama. After only three months, March 1865, he was captured at Blakley, Alabama and two months later, May 1865, paroled at Big Black, Mississippi. There are many soldiers named John Patterson but this document gives his address in 1907-08 as Grove Oak, Alabama. ^[3]

At the end of the next year, 19 December 1866, John married Mary Elizabeth Jaco in Marshall County, Alabama.^[4] John and Mary had seven girls and three boys. In 1883 John purchased his own land near his mother-in-law, Lavinia Jaco, in Grove Oak, Marshall County, Alabama. Today Highway 227 runs through this land somewhere between Center Point Road and The Eagle Roost View. ^[5]John went from a farm laborer ^[6] to a farmer ^[7]to a farm owner but this was a big undertaking and it took everyone working together. By 1900 everyone, all of the boys, the girls, and even Mary, his wife, were listed on the census as “farm laborers”. John and Mary could not read or write but all of their children could and one, Maude, even married the local school teacher, Wesley Isbell. ^[8]

On 5 July 1914, John Jackson Patterson passed away in Marshall County. He was laid to rest in Woosley Cemetery where his parents were buried before him. ^[9]Many other family members have also been buried there. This man who never lived outside of Marshall County and couldn’t read or write has descendants spread across the United States and beyond. [8]

Sources

1. ↑ Birth date: abt 1847 Birth place: Alabama Residence date: 1850 Residence place: District 23, Marshall, Alabama, Year: 1850; Census Place: District 23, Marshall, Alabama; Roll: M432_10; Page: 266B; Image: . [1],1850 United States Federal Census, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the , http://www.Ancestry.com
2. ↑ Land Patent Details: Accession Nr: AL3140__.043 , Document Type: State Volume Patent, State: Alabama, Issue Date: 5/1/1848, PATTERSON, SPENCER, Land Office: Lebanon, Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566), Document Nr: 8647, Total Acres: 39.87, Land Descriptions: State: AL, Meridian: Huntsville, Twp – Rng: 007S - 005E, Aliquots: NE¼NW¼, Section: 6, County: Marshall. [2]
3. ↑ Alabama, Civil War Soldiers, 1860-1865, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015, Provo, UT, USA, http://www.Ancestry.com
4. ↑ Alabama, Select Marriages, 1816-1957, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014, Provo, UT, USA, http://www.Ancestry.com
5. ↑ Land Patent Details: Accession Nr: AL4050__.093, Document Type: State Volume Patent, State: Alabama, Issue Date: 9/15/1883, PATTERSON, JOHN, Land Office: Huntsville, Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead Entry Original (12 Stat. 392), Document Nr: 2109, Total Acres: 159.34, Misc. Doc. Nr: 5162, BLM Serial Nr: AL NO S/N, Descriptions: State: AL, Meridian: Huntsville, Twp – Rng: 007S - 005E, Aliquots: SW¼SW¼, E½SW¼, and SE¼NW¼, Section: 4, County: Marshall. [3]
6. ↑ Birth date: abt 1849 Birth place: Alabama Residence date: 1870 Residence place: Subdivision 45, Marshall, Alabama, United States, Year: 1870; Census Place: Subdivision 45, Marshall, Alabama; Roll: M593_; Page: ; Image: , [4], 1870 United States Federal Census, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Record, http://www.Ancestry.com;
7. ↑ Birth date: abt 1849 Birth place: Alabama Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Marshall, Alabama, United States, Year: 1880; Census Place: , Marshall, Alabama; Roll: 23; Family History Film: 1254023; Page: 129A; Enumeration District: 248; Image: ,[5] 1880 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited, http://www.Ancestry.com
8. ↑ Birth date: Dec 1846 Birth place: Alabama Marriage date: 1865 Marriage place: Residence date: 1900 Residence place: Precinct 17 Kirby, Marshall, Alabama, Year: 1900; Census Place: Kirby, Marshall, Alabama; Roll: T623_30; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 93.[6] 1900 United States Federal Census, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 18, http://www.Ancestry.com
9. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 62580326, [7]

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9DX-PG2 : accessed 10 August 2018), Mary E Patterson in household of John Patterson, Precinct 17 Kirby, Marshall, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 93, sheet 9A, family 169, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,030.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK7V-MC6 : accessed 10 August 2018), Mary E Patterson in household of John Patterson, Kirby, Marshall, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 107, sheet 8B, family 144, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 25; FHL microfilm 1,374,038.

--Children--

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDRT-JCC : 15 February 2018), Elizabeth Jaco in entry for Mrs. George Quinn, 04 Aug 1937; citing reference cn 18714, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,908,556.

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JXBH-FFS : 15 February 2018), Elizabeth Jaco in entry for Viola N. Kirtland, 24 Jan 1961; citing reference 479, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,908,958.

• "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J6ZP-8ZK : 15 February 2018), Elizabeth Jaco in entry for William Jackson Patterson, 11 Sep 1957; citing reference 21483, Department of Health, Montgomery; FHL microfilm 1,908,923.