PATTERSON PERDUE was born in or about the year 1826, in Giles County, Virginia. He was a son of Thomas Perdue by his wife, the former miss Margaret Cole.
A new county was created on March 17, 1837, from parts of Giles and Tazewell counties and named Mercer. The county was named for Revolutionary War Gen. Hugh Mercer. The new county seat of Princeton was named for the 1777 Battle of Princeton, New Jersey, at which General Mercer fell.[1]
He married Editha White about 1844, in Mercer County.
Boone County was formed March 11, 1847, from parts of Logan, Kanawha, and Cabell counties by an act of the Virginia legislature and named Boone upon the encouragement of legislator St. Clair Ballard. A small log courthouse was constructed to become the county seat and named for Ballard as Ballardsville.
We get our first real glimpse of Patterson's life in the Federal Census enumerated August 21, 1850, whereas Patterson and Editha are living in Mercer County neighboring his in-laws Thomas White, Harmon White, and Patton G. White, along with his grandfather Isaac Cole, his uncle Augustus W. Cole, James H. Fletcher, and John Pennington.[2]
On March 16, 1853, a deed for 110 acres of land lying on Paynes Fork of the 5 Mile Fork of East River was made out to Patterson Perdue carved from a sale made to his father-in-law, Thomas White.[3]
In 1854, Patterson appears on the real estate tax list of Mercer County as owning 110 acres of land on Paynes Fork of the 5 Mile Fork of East River deeded from Robert Hall, Commissioner. This lies near Elgood and Princeton.
On November 6, 1855, Patterson purchased 2 tracts of land totaling 80 acres from Jordan Meadows and Susy his wife, Adam Meadows and Sally his wife, Jeremiah Meadows and Jane his wife, Jacob Comer and Anny his wife, Ephraim Meadows and Ellen his wife, Jacob Meadows, Barbara Meadows, Polly Meadows, and the heirs of John Nosman, deceased.[4]
The following year, on June 4, 1856, Patterson sold those two tracts to his father-in-law, Thomas White.[5]
In a Christmas gift dated December 24, 1858, Thomas White, Patterson's father-in-law, deeded personal property to Patterson's children.[6]
Patterson sold his 110-acre land holdings January 11, 1859.[7]
Isaac was the last child born in Mercer County before the Perdue family moved to Ballardsville in Boone County, where they are found in the Federal Census enumerated June 6, 1860, neighboring the residences of James Halstead, who owned 500 acres at the head of Rock Creek, and Jeremiah Pauley.[8]
There is little information, if any, as to how Patterson died. His last child, Margaret, was born in March of either 1862 or 1863. Being of fighting age, it seems likely Patterson would have been a part of the local CSA militia, two companies of which engaged federal troops on September 1, 1861, in the area of Ballardsville in what was the first of four Civil War battles fought in Boone County. The Confederates were eventually forced to retreat and the Federals then burned most of Ballardsville including the Post Office, the Courthouse, and several private homes. Somewhere in the heat of the War, we can assume Patterson lost his life.
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