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Robert Patterson (1844-1928)
b & r West Deer Twp, PA (son of William Sylvester Gray & Elizabeth Leslie; Farmer; my great-grandfather) went to MO with brother Samuel after the Civil War to each claim 50 acres under the Homestead Act, but sold land to his brother and returned home to run the family farm
-military: GAR 6th PA Infantry Reg., Co. A (Heavy Artillery 1864-65) guarded capitol at Washington, DC
-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery, WDT (See cemetery for GPS)
Annie M. Sims Norris (1850-1922) b & r WDT (daughter of Dowling & Elizabeth K. Brown Norris; Homemaker)
-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery, WDT (See cemetery for GPS)
Married: Bull Creek Presbyterian (1882) by Rev. Thomas Johnston
Children:
1. Mary Bryce (1885-1886) died in infancy at 10 months
2. Edna “Janet” Jeannette (1887-1980) (m. Howard Kellar)
3. William “Will” Garfield (1889-1970) (m. Bertha Bonin)
4. Russell Stanley (1891-1955) (m. Elmira “Elma” Rush; Ford dealer)
5. Paul Barton (1892-1977) b. WDT r. Middlesex Twp., Butler Co. (m. Bertha Ione Campbell; Carpenter; my grandparents)
-buried: Bull Creek Cemetery, WDT
Documentation:
Notes of Edna Gray. 1 September 1991
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