BIOGRAPHY: Educated at the University of North Carolina and at William & Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia. He was Captain of the Scotland Neck Mounted Riflemen during the latter part of the Civil War. He engaged in planting near Scotland Neck till about 1876 when he removed to Cleveland, Arkansas and lived there till 1890, when he returned to Scotland Neck. He died February 5, 1901, and was buried in Trinity Cemetery. He married the 5th of January, 1863, in Trinity Church, the Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire officiation, Louisa Catherine Hill, a daughter of Whitmel J. Hill and his wife Lavina Dorothy Barnes, of "Kenmore," at Hill's Cross Roads, sister of his brother Peter's wife.
Later, in the summer of 1861, the Forty-First Regiment was organized with the Scotland Neck Mounted Riflemen as one of the best fighting units. At the head of this well equipped and well distinguished company were Atherton H. Hill, Captain; Benjamin G. Smith, First Lieutenant; Norfleet Smith, Second Lieutenant. It became a part of the cavalry division of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Born in Halifax County where he resided as a farmer and enlisted at age 23, April 23, 1861 for twelve months service. Mustered in as Sergeant and promoted to 1st Sergeant March-April 1862. Appointed 1st Lieutenant to rank from May 1, 1862 and promoted to Captain to rank from October 7,1862, Present or accounted for through October 1864.
Graduated University of North Carolina, 1832.
Story dated Feb. 25, 1935, Reese, N.C. by Susie Trivette
For a time he was an Episcopal missionary in the mountains of North Carolina where he met and married Hettie Rowland of Wautauga County.
His father wrote of him:
"George has got his share of my estate. I shall leave him the interest on ten thousand dollars to keep him from being a charge on his family. He was the cause of my buying the McBryde land and then refusing to take it and treated me in the most contemptuous manner and was the cause of Peter acting the part of the fool as he did. But for the intercession of his uncles, George and Hines he might have rooted for his living for I never would have written him to return to me in my time. George deserves less favor from his parents than any human being. He has always from the time he was knee high gone contrary to my advice and done anything he thought would be disagreeable to me and I have now washed my hands of him".Moved to Cleveland County, Arkansas about 1876, where he left a large family. His daughters Nancy married her cousin, Benjamin G. Smith, Jr.
Buried in the remote, Morrilton cemetery located outside Scotland, Arkansas
19. Hettie Rowland
Of Wautauga County
Moved to Cleveland, Arkansas about 1876
Photocopy of the headstone located in the Dennard, Arkansas, Cemetery, North of Clinton, Arkansas
Samuel Curron Patton is buried in Bluffton Cemetary in Van Buren, Co., Arkansas in the third grave from the one of George Pattton which has a marker. Letter from Bertha Baker: "I believe you know the line of graves the Pattons and Starnes are in. Grandma Patton is close to the Cedar tree on the north end, then Grandma Starnes, Grandpa Starnes and next is Grandpa Patton."
!Warranty Deed: March 14, 1849, for SE 1/2 NW 4 Sec. 7 25-45-10 Range Book Page 512 of Callaway Co. Missouri. This property is located West of Mokane, Mo. in Callaway Co. Sold land on Dec. 30, 1871.Homesteaded land June 13, 1882, in Clinton, Arkansas area.
Family information states that Eliza Ann became his house keeper for his four children. They were also married in Callaway Co. so she was probably a widow and they moved together to Arkansas to join her family of Starnes.
Letter from Bertha Patton Baker (Salpulpa, Oklahoma) indicates that Samuel Curron Patton was Pennsylvania Dutch, who came from Pennsylvania, to Missouri and then to Arkansas. Efforts to locate any Civil War Service have been unsuccessful. Tradition is that Callaway County in Missouri was a Southern County. There were Pattons settled in Callaway County in the early 1800,s but we have not connected to any of these lines.
The 1850 Census of Callaway Co. Missouri Lists:
#903 Samuel C. Patton 28 Farmer#904 Joel Wisely 47 Farmer Va.
Henry T. 25M Farmer Va.
Nancy A. 20 F Va.
Daniel 10 M Mo.
Martha 9 F Mo.
Minerva 16 F
Emily 13 F
Thomas 9 M
John E. 6 M
Charles 4 M
This does not indicate where Jane was or if there were children but that they lived nearby.The 1860 Census of Callaway Co. Missouri Lists page 36:
Samuel C Patton 40 M Farmer Ky. personal property $700
Jane 26 F Va.
Joel 8 M Mo.
John 6 M Mo.
Thomas 4 M Mo.
Susan 2 F Mo.
(Could this Jane be the Minerva listed in the 1850 Census? Maybe a double name.)
Married Second: Justice of the Peace Wm. F. Dunn (?spelling). Listed in the Callaway Co. Marriage records from 1866. (copy attached)
She Married a man named Jackson at the age of 16. He was killed in the Civil war. She then kept house for Sam, who was a widower and married him. Buried at Bluffton. One grave from G. Patton's marker. There is a baby grave between but it is not her child.
There is a baby buried in Leslie Cemetery, Sercy Co., Arkansas
Admiral Cemetary: 5 to 7mi. E. of Baird, Callahan, Tex. Interstate 20 off ramp on farm road 2228, S. about 5 to 7mi.
Additional information discovered Jul 23, 1998, while using the geneological library in Yuma, Arizona. Material linking through my great, great, grandfather John E. Eastham, AFN:517R-K2.Per Leatrice Smith, The census page was too large to photograph in it's last column. John states he came from Kentucky. A note written on the photocopy reads: LDS page 327B Precinct No 1 in County of Callohan, State of Texas, 18th day of June 1880.
Information consisting of 2 pages geneology and a 1 page letter was furnished by Merle Howard, Rt. 4, Box 366, Warrensburg, Missouri, 64093, dated 27 December, 1989.
The middle name is spelled "Steverson" on a document photo copy. A second document furnished by Bob Simmons uses the same spelling. This is titled Mordica Augustus Howard. The spelling of this name in the June 1850 census is "Mordecai".
This same document states the John Hancock that signed the Declaration of Independence was cousin to Dr. J. T. Hancock.
1860 census occupation listed as brickmason
French
Per notes in the hand of Mordica Augustus Howard: John Hancock that signed the Declaration of Independence was mamma's cousin.
M.A. Howard was killed by a train after he accidentally stepped in front of it at the train station in Oneonta, Blount, Alabama.
The spelling of Ethelville also shows Ethelsville and Ethellsville.
This was at this time Yorkville, Alabama, a stop on the Old Stage Coach Line from Aliceville-Pickensville-Yorkville-Columbus, Mississippi.This is the letter he had in his pocket the day he died:
"My dear daughter your letter received, was glad to hear from you, Maud and the children. We are well except I am suffering with the after effects of Flue. I got a letter from Twant, they are all well, he is back at Ethellsville. He gives an awful account of labor and its do everywhere. If the Government don't take control times are going to be bad. You beat me on Chickens, but I am coming. I have one hen with 14 chicks and 4 others setting, expecting 2 off in 5 days. Eleanor don't have any time for anything except cook a little of a morning and then devote the balance of her time on their circles, mighty religious. I can beat you in the garden, I have corn up two weeks old, with ___, ____, onions six inches high and we will have some fruit but its inferior, I have no news worth writing, I am sorry your health is not good, take care of yourself, write often.
Your father J. T. Hancock,
Kindest to Maud and the children."Became a Doctor.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War as 1st Sergeant in the Pickens County Company B, 40thAlabama Regiment, which was organized at Speeds Mill on March 13, 1862.
Letter written with no punctuation, in pencil, on note paper titled at the top: J.T. Hancock, M.D., Physician and Surgeon
Oneonta, Alabama 11- 27 - 1921
Mrs. M A Howard Oklahoma
My dear daughter I received your letter was glad to hear form you and that your were all well I'm not well Eleanor is in very good health. She has got to be a great church woman out all the time got no time at home She is a great believer
in womans suffergist, and as the law has past it forces our women to vote but the Bible says The olden women should teach the younger women to be sober to read Titus 2 Chapter you will find all the teachings for a woman addressed by the bible I recollect what all bro Teasdale of Col. Miss said in a lecture over night year's ago he was lecturing on womans sufferage, he said it was coming he spoke of a Lady with all the admiration that language could express perfect praise - but as he said all this he said son deliver him from a mean one Beauty and grace are qualities that highly adorn a ladies face not her leg Well enough of that I am glad to know that your are all well & doing well write me soon & often always glad to hear from you
Your father
J.T. Hancock
Excues this badly written letter. I am suffering with ___________ in my hand
There are two letters from Eleanor Hancock dated Jan 11, 1923 and Jan. 20, 1923, written to Mrs. Nannie Howard.
History of Jeremiah Hancock Family, Source: Pickens County Alabama History and Families: Jesse Thomas married first, in her father's, Thomas C. Cockrell, home. Buried in Cockrell Cemetery behind Robert Thaxton's home off the Carrollton McShan Road.
Died at age 30 with four children under age 10