Occupation: Carpenter; Owned a general store at Rocky Hille, (Arkansas?) Education: none; County and Probate Judge 1904-1908; and again Mar 31, 1916.
Census records, 1900: State of Arkansas, Vol. 39, Sheet 1, E.D. 34, line 4, locates this family in Van Buren, Cleveland Twp.
Nancy Ellen Evans is Winona Bouyear's Great Aunt
10. Reverend Samuel Eli Patton
Died of sun stroke while working in his garden.
Hand Written notes from Lester & Etta Baker June 20, 1986:
"Samuel Eli Patton's Bible bought in 1902. Samuel Eli Patton was married to Miss Margaret Denton, Dec. 17, 1893."
The balance of the notes are geneology transfered to the personal ancestral file 3.0A certified copy of S.E. Patton's Ministry ordinantion is in Gary L. Smith's posession. This done by order of Salem Baptist Church in Conference
Sept. 15th, 1907.
Hand written Obituary:
"Margaret Patton wife of Sam Patton and daughter of William Eliqah and Nancy Jane Denton. After a few weeks illness with typhoid fever departed this life Oct 11th, 1902, with something like heart trouble. Her case was not thought to be of alarming gravity as in substance was expressed by her attending physician, after a stated time for taking medicine for which purpose she raised herself in bed and immediately on doing so life became extinct. Thus ends the life of one of whom it can be said had all the characteristics of a true and devoted companion a kind and tender hearted mother, a generous and abliging neighbor, she was never boisterous but modest temperance patience, prudence and kindness were some of the cardinal features of her life. She leaves a heart stricken husband and four small children. A mother, five brothers, four sisters and many other relatives to mourn her demise. Her remains were laid to rest in Bluffton Cemetery in the prescesce of many sorrowing relatives and friends there to await the reserrection morn.
Her Uncle"
The funeral announcement states Baird, Texas as his birth place.
Cemetary headstone picture, Plainview Cemetary, Okla., South and West of Sayre, Oklahoma.
Cemetary headstone picture, Plainview Cemetary, Okla., South and West of Sayre, Oklahoma.
Bellview, Missouri is listed on a geneology piece furnished by Robert Simmons, cousin, son on Verna Lou Harris (Eastham)
Farmer-Bricklayer
Information obtained from Howard Family Bible, Rosa Lucille Howard Eastham, Records of Jessie Mae Howard Wileman, Tombstones, Newspapers, Personal Knowledge of family members, Stewart family bible, W.D. Stewart, Jr.Picture taken by W. Layne Smith and L. Lea Smith (Eastham), grand daughter
Married Howard and moved to Texas.
A hand written letter from Mrs. Eleanor G. Hancock, dated Jan. 11, 1923, to Mrs. Nannie Howard, discussing an insurance settlement for the loss of her husband, states "....Leaving $642.20 to be divided among you four heirs."
Probate records dated May 11, 1923, Blount County, Alabama, leaves a distributive share, $860.55 each, to 4 individuals.
Picture of Headstone in Erick, Oklahoma, cemetary taken by W. Layne Smith and L. Leatrice Smith (Eastham), grand daughter
This was at this time Yorkville, Alabama, a stop on the Old Stage Coach Line from Aliceville-Pickensville-Yorkville-Columbus, Mississippi.