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Note: Ancestors of James Pickens Patterson are unproven and in a working draft - the only exception may be his parents, Alexander Patterson and Elizabeth Pickens (or probably Gillespie), as they are referenced in the History of Stewart County, Georgia. WN 6/2004 ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Email from Faye Dyess, owner of the GenCircles file indicating that James P. Patterson was married to Martha Hardy:
Martha Hardy is a descendant of my direct line, Robert Etheridge b. 1752. The information on Marthas line came from the book, 10 Generations of Etheridges. In the book Martha is only listed as married to Dixon and no dates. I have sent a message to see if I can learn who supplied the marriage dates and the name of Patterson. I believe the Wilkinson Co Records are fairly easy to locate. I will let you know what I learn.
I am also always happy to add more on the descendants of these lines.
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From the Rootsweb site Weldon and Related Families - elweldon@bellsouth.net .
Email from Margie C 5/2004:
A couple of additional things I've found since I sent you the file: According to the info from Bo Price, Martha Hardie and James Pickens Patterson were married Feb. 13, 1831. He says in Stewart Co., GA. I don't know where he got the date or the county. I would think Wilkinson Co., GA would be more likely to have been the place of their marriage. Also, he has info that Martha's brother, Joel Hardie, was married to James Pickens Patterson's sister, Margaret Patterson.
The book "Shade's Tree", a history of Shadrack Dixon, simply states: "Thomas' second wife, Mrs. Martha Hardie Patterson, was the widow of James Pickens Patterson." __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Searched the 1830 US Census records for Randolph and Wilkinson Counties with no hits for James Patterson. Searched the 1840 US Census records for Stewart and Wilkinson Counties with one hit for James Patterson which is included in the scrapbook. WN 12/2003 _______________________________________________________________________________________________
From the "History of Stewart County Georgia Vol II" by: Sara Robertson Dixon and A H Clark, pg 997.
"DESCENDANTS OF JAMES PICKENS PATTERSON AND MARTHA HARDIE PATTERSON James Pickens Patterson, b Feb 14, 1806; d abt 1840-41; son of Alexander Patterson, a native Of Ireland who emigrated to America in the 18th century, and Elizabeth Pickens of Georgia; m Feb 13, 1831, Martha Hardie, b 1810; d Aug 30 1883; dau of John Hardie and Demeris Ethridge of Lumpkin, Georgia; (some believe that Elizabeth Pickens was a descendant of Gen. Andrew Pickens of Revolutionary War fame, but this has never been proven); " ______________________________________________________________________________________________
In the Georgia Probate Index the following entries are found:
Patterson, Amsy Jane - James P. Patterson gdn - 2/1836* (Amsy Jane Patterson was daughter of John R. Patterson and niece of James P. Patterson) Patterson, Elizabeth Perkins - James P. Patterson gdn - 2/1836 Patterson, William B - James P. Patterson admr 4/1841 - Lydia Patterson widow.**
*The 1850 Census for Wilkinson County, Georgia, indicates that Aimzey J. Patterson Etheredge was born in SC.
** Email from Margie Caparoon, 7/2004: I have in my files that James P. Patterson's brother, William B. Patterson was married to a Lydia Vincent. ______________________
In the Georgia Wills Index the following entry is found:
Patterson, James - Elbert County - #1829-60
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In the Georgia Marriage Index is the following entry: James Patterson to Ellen Golden, Wilkinson County, 6/4/1828. We assume that this is not James Pickens Patterson.
Wilkinson County Vital Records office reports that they have no marriage records dating after 1828 and before 1864 - 7/2004. Since James PIckens Patterson and Martha Hardie are reported to have been married in 1831, this would explain why there is no marriage record. ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Email from Margie Caparoon 5/2004:
Wayne,
I've found my notes from " The History of Stewart Co., GA".
Abstracts - Stewart Co. Bond Book B No. 295 - William, John, Martha Ann, Mary J. and James Patterson, orphans of James P. Patterson; Date: Nov. 6, 1848; Guardian, William Nelson; Bond, $6,000; Bondsmen, Ivey W. Gregory, Charles S. Gaulden
Since we know Martha Hardie Patterson Dixon was the mother of the above children, I believe we can safely say James Pickens Patterson was their father. I think the above record pretty much proves that. ____________
You asked me about the abstract book entry with the date Nov. 6, 1848. I can't answer your question on that. I guess it must have something to do with land or property that was once owned by James P. Patterson. In looking at the notes I copied from "The History of Stewart Co., GA", I also copied the following:
Abstracts - Stewart Co. Bond Book B No. 199 - Estate of James P. Patterson; Date, July 1, 1844; Admin. William Nelson; Bond $6,000, Bondsmen, William D. Fitch, Richard J. Snelling.
From this entry, James P. Patterson died before July 1, 1844. We know James G. Patterson was born in 1843 so James P. probably died in 1843 or early 1844.
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Email from Margie Caparoon 5/2004:
Hi Wayne,
A couple of additional things I've found since I sent you the file: According to the info from Bo Price, Martha Hardie and James Pickens Patterson were married Feb. 13, 1831. He says in Stewart Co., GA. I don't know where he got the date or the county. I would think Wilkinson Co., GA would be more likely to have been the place of their marriage. Also, he has info that Martha's brother, Joel Hardie, was married to James Pickens Patterson's sister, Margaret Patterson.
The book "Shade's Tree", a history of Shadrack Dixon, simply states: "Thomas' second wife, Mrs. Martha Hardie Patterson, was the widow of James Pickens Patterson." ____________________________________________________________________________________________
From: "History of Stewart County Georgia Vol II" by: Sara Robertson Dixon and A H Clark, pg 997.
DESCENDANTS OF JAMES PICKENS PATTERSON AND MARTHA HARDIE PATTERSON
James Pickens Patterson, b Feb 14, 1806; d abt 1840-41; son of Alexander Patterson, a native of Ireland who emigrated to America in the 18th century, and Elizabeth Pickens of Georgia; m Feb 13, 1831, Martha Hardie, b 1810; d Aug 30 1883; dau of John Hardie and Demeris Ethridge of Lumpkin, Georgia; (some believe that Elizabeth Pickens was a descendant of Gen. Andrew Pickens of Revolutionary War fame, but this has never been proven); issue ...
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Email from T. McLean - 7/2004
To view p. 94 of Sharp's book that I referenced in my notes, go to the PICKENS ARCHIVES site maintained by John Carr Pickens: http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~pickensarchive/sharp/sharp.html Use the 'find' feature of your browser and type in EMS 94
Note that in my copy of the book, the name of Elizabeth PICKENS as the wife of Alexander PATTERSON is a hand-written addition. If I recall correctly, the handwritten notes in this edition were made by Sharp himself (mine is a photo-copy provided to me by a cousin who got his copy directly from Sharp) ____________________________________________________________________________________________
CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA - DEEDS - Land Lottery 1827
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This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Donna Eldridge DELDRIDGE1@aol.com
Table of Contents page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/crawford.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm
CRAWFORD COUNTY, GEORGIA 1827 Georgia Lottery
Note: Section 1 is Lee County Section 2 is Muscogee County Section 3 is Troup County Section 4 is Coweta County Section 5 is Carroll County
Section, District, Lot No. - Name - County, Captains District
25th Day's Drawing - April 4th 5 15 140 Harper, William - Crawford County, Lovetts 3 9 6 Patterson, James P. - Crawford County, Tillers 1 7 51 Carter, Samuel - Crawford County, Hamiltons 5 7 230 Bennett, John soldier - Crawford County, Moors 1 20 59 Castleberry, Peter - Crawford County, Rhodes 1 20 101 Kelly, John - Crawford County, Rhodes 1 24 98 Price, Lucus R.S. - Crawford County, Hicks ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Excerpts from Jerold Patterson Emails:
The fifth Georgia Land lottery lists James P. Pickens (writer probably meant Patterson, as we had been corresponding about James Pickens Patterson) as being in Crawford County. The next land lottery shows John R. Patterson's orphans in Stewart County. _______
Crawford County Marriage Index:
PATTERSON, James P. JOHNSON, Sally 08-07-1825 PATTERSON, James JOHNSON, Nancy 10-28-1823
1840 Crawford Census:
Patterson, Jas 1-1-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0:1-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0
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The fifth Georgia Land lottery lists James P. Pickens as being in Crawford County. The next land lottery shows John R. Patterson's orphans in Stewart County. _________
The next lottery was called the "Gold Lottery" and was in 1832. Someone from our group has viewed every plat we know of that involved Pattersons as found at the Georgia Archives, and in this case the name on the compiled list and the name on the plat differ slightly. That's how we know that it was the orphans of John R. Patterson.
Almost certainly, there were two James P. Pattersons, and we believe that their fathers were brothers. From information that we have gathered, all but two sons of John and Margaret Baskin Patterson were steady, "follow the crowd farmers"..... rolling with the flow. Their son James was a "I'll change the direction of the stream" kind of man, a latter day pioneer, and apparently regarded the highest of all of the siblings. His brother, John, Jr., is our biggest question mark.
Four Patterson brothers could have fathered the two James P. Pattersons. Where both James P. Pattersons were born narrows the possibilities. Through our combined research efforts, we BELIEVE that we have placed all of the Pendleton County, SC, Pattersons shown in the 1790-1820 censuses. In doing so, we arrived at the conclusion that Alexander Patterson, son of John and Margaret Baskin Patterson, never lived in South Carolina. We have a pretty tight "time line" on Alexander, but of course, James P. could have been born in South Carolina when Elizabeth was visiting her mother or siblings. _________
Until we sorted out the children of John and Margaret Baskin Patterson, little productive was going to happen. Hence, my feelings about sorting out the children of Alexander and Elizabeth follow the same logic.
Probability makes Ruth (Rutha) Patterson a daughter of Alexander Patterson. According to the marriage records that we have passed back and forth, she married Jethro Billings on February 25, 1844. They were in the 1850 census for Wilkinson County.
Jethro and Ruth Patterson Billings moved to Monroe County, AL, and then to Escambia County, FL. If you are correct that James P. was the father of James G., then Ruth Billings was an aunt to James G. _________
O. K !! Strong Stewart County connection ! Good connection to Martha Hardie Patterson Dixon and a mystery James A. Patterson. At age 33 in 1870, he had to have been in the War Between the States. There were 8 soldiers from FL, GA, or AL listed as J. A. or James A. and thirteen listed as just James Patterson. James A. from Florida was in the 1st Infantry, New Company I.
Your line just got quite confusing. In 1850, Eleanor Patterson (42) and her daughter Katherine (17) were living with Jethro Billings. Our group assumed that Eleanor Patterson was the widow of James Patterson, son of Alexander Patterson, mainly because we found no evidence of any other Pattersons residing in Wilkinson County in the 1820s and that she was the Ellen Golden that married James Patterson in Wilkinson County in 1828 (which would mean that she was about 20 when they married). She lived next door to Jethro and Ruth in 1860 in the home of W. L. and Catherine (28) Willis. (Joseph N.I. Golden of Wilkinson County married Margaret Willis in 1855, about the same time.) In 1880, Elenor Patterson (73) is living with Cathrine S. Godwin (49) and her 24 y.o. husband in Pensacola, Escambia County, FL. Could this James, husband of Ellen, be the one found in Crawford County, GA, in 1830? If so, then the coincidence is that there are several Godwins buried near James G. Patterson.
My/our problem is that we have too many James Pattersons ! James who married Ellen/Eleanor Golden and James that married Martha Hardie can't both be sons of Alexander, can they ?
We want it to be simple and I usually make it more complicated than it is before getting to a satisfactory (and hopefully accurate) answer. As I stated earlier, Joseph Patterson won land in the lottery in Wilkinson County, GA. Tax records do NOT show that he ever lived in Wilkinson County, but show a Thomas Patterson lived in Twigg County less than six miles away on what we BELIEVE was Joseph's land (source: Twiggs County Tax Records; Twigg and Wilkinson County land lottery maps and plats). We have not found or identified what happened to our Thomas's son, James (no âPâ indicated or shown). Hence, more reasons for our involvement in your James P. Patterson. Could James P. Patterson have been the son of Thomas Patterson who lived briefly in Twiggs County or could he have been the son of the John Patterson, partner in the trading post? Did Thomas take his son to Twiggs County, establish a farm and return to Abbeville County, SC ? He did something similar for his son George.
A John Patterson was partner to Samuel Beall (whose wife was Elizabeth Gilbert) and they were the owners of the first âtrading postâ found in Wilkinson County, GA (source: Book written by Joseph T. Maddox on Wilkinson County, GA.) The records of who had accounts at that store are paramount to our Patterson history of pre-1820 Wilkinson County, GA, including Baskin and Gillespie family members. But John Patterson never lived in Wilkinson County, GA, as far as we can determine. (Whether this was Alexander's father or not has been VERY hotly debated !!!) Samuel Beall's brother owned the stagecoach line that went from Franklin County through Petersburg and later through Milledgeville and on to Irvington. Combined Partial Sources: (1) Old Petersburg and the Broad River Valley of Georgia by Ellis Merton Coulter, Prof. Emeritus of History, U. of Ga.; (2) Historical Map Collection of the U.S. Geological Society, Reston, VA depicting pre-1820 Stagecoach Routes of Georgia with distances, schedules and fares; (3) Beall Family History by John A Leo and others.) For a short period of time, the stage went all the way to Savannah, before steamboats took travelers and cargo between Savannah and Augusta and later the railroad came. (Source: Augusta Chronicle, 1828 issues- Owner of the first steamboats- N. K. Butler, ancestor of one of our members- relationship to Joel Butler, who later owned the Patterson Place in Wilkinson County, land originally owned by Alexander Patterson- unknown, if any.)
Alexander owned several slaves (Sources: Wilkinson County Tax Records & U.S. censuses). He was not a poor man, but not a wealthy man either. We have looked for records of some kind of epidemic in the area. Too many men disappeared. Did they loss their lives in the second war against the Seminole Indians (1835-1838, although listed by many historians as lasting into 1842) ? What happened to Alexander Patterson ?
Back to John P. plus Martha Hardie Patterson and James plus Ellen Golden Patterson. Apparently, both died within a few years of one another. Without estate or probate/orphan's court records of both, it may be impossible to sort out what happened.
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Email from Jerold Patterson 7/23/2005
Hello Wayne,
All of your response was welcomed.
In the court records of Wilkinson County, Augustus Raiford was instructed to sell a lot in Dooley County, Georgia, in 1842 that was owned by "James Patterson". We had tried to get information on that sale only to find a fire destoyed all of the deed for the 1830's and most of the 1840's deed records in Dooley County. So some of the very best detective work eventually determined that that lot was owned by the James Patterson who married Eleanor/Ellen Golden. James bought it from Mrs. Mary Passmore of Wilkinison County, after Allen Golden settled on the adjacent lot. That was the key information. (We argued about the various Jameses for months.) It took that James out of the equation because of Allen Golden's ties in Lincoln County, Georgia.
We wrestled with the fact that Alexander S. Patterson died at Joel Hardie's home. It had to have been Joel's brother-in-law, although two members thought there was a small possibility he could have been Margaret's first cousin. But once James and Ellen Patterson were taken out of the equation and placed into another Patterson family, it gave a clean naming pattern for Alexander and Elizabeth. All of their sons were given middle initials. John R., Samuel L., James P., William B., and Alexander S. were their sons. Their daughters were probably given middle initials also, but it is doubtful we will ever know those initials. We know that Margaret, Mary and Emily were three of their daughters, but we don't know who the others were.
Alexander remarried after Elizabeth died. There were children by that marriage as well. The deaths of all of Alex and Elizabeth's sons before 1845 except Samuel L. left a complete void in Wilkinson County, Georgia, and dozens of grandchildren to find. Alexander's second wife had small children to rear and remarried fairly quickly after Alexander's death and moved away before either William B. or James P. died.
James P. was enumerated in the 1840 census. His son, William B., was the fourth oldest male in the household in 1840. His father was the oldest, but then two other males were shown older than William B.. Your direct line ancestor, James G. hadn't been born. By the time the courts got around to specifying guardians (1844), those two males could have reached majority age and the court ignored them. They weren't old enough to be guardians, and may have married young and started their own families. Hence, we started looking at Patterson marriages in the vicinity between mid-1840 and late 1845. After Martha Hardie Patterson remarried, they may have visited their siblings, but I doubt that they maintained close ties with the Dixon family.
The book will firmly establish Alexander as a son of John (Sr.) and Margaret Baskin Patterson. It will document all of John and Margaret's children plus John, Sr.'s sibliings, and parents, and his grandparents, and many uncles and aunts. It will be done with written text, not with family trees, documenting (and hopefully proving) how each and every connection was made with deeds, wills, tax records, court records, military records, pension records, marriage records and old letters. It covers Pattersons who came to America in the 1600's and some that lived in Maryland, Pennsylvnia, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. There will be at least fifty maps and illustrations. Almost all of the maps were created by us, showing exact locations of property and the property of their relatives. The index will be over seventy-five (75) pages of names, three columns to the page. The chapters that involve Alexander Patterson and his family incorporate about 33 pages and will be finalized by next Friday. Anything you have to add needs to be done immediately. Why, because the book is structured differently. It is so "Name intensive" that it was broken into eight "Parts" and each "Part" has it's own index after it. The eight indexes will then be consolidated into a master index that will refer back to the "Part Number Index". That locks in every part and adding stuff will change page number in every index after the addition, and that's too painful to deal with. In those indexes, Alexander of Wilkinson will be distinguished from other Alexanders. This had to be done manually. There may be as many as fifteen other Alexanders written about in other families. Finding Alexander was the key for just about everything in the last three parts.
The book is not TIMID ! It presents contrary information for many lines that have already been established by sources unknown, tradition, and "my aunt's third cousin's grandmother". It's complicated and hard to read except for die hard family historians. It will be very expensive to publish, maybe $67.00 a copy our cost (hard cover). We employed a professional photographer to do the "jacket", too. With so much imput for other sources, it was decided that the author would be a "Trust" rather than a single individual. Bottom line, it was a labor of love, and don't expect to make any money, but hope it will pay for the publishing costs at least.
In stage terms, we hope to "break a leg" with the book.
Best regards, ja patterson
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Emails from Terry McLean:
Wayne I have no idea if this is helpful, but I came across this in my files today:
EARLY GEORGIA WILLS AND SETTLEMENTS OF ESTATES by Sally Smith [sorry, I apparently failed to copy publication info - I will see if I can locate it]
Wilkes Co Abstracts of Superior Court Cases from original loose papers 1797-1850
p. 17 "Heirs of James PATTERSON, dec. sell to John W. COOPER, executor of Isabella PATTERSON, dec., who was adm. of John A. PATTERSON, all of Wilkes Co., of the other part 200 acres on Uptons Creek, Dec 7, 1817. signed by Ann ARNOLD, Henry LAUGHTER, Samuel WALKER, Margaret PATTERSON, Wm. WALKER, James WALKER, James P. CAULK, agt. for Jacob CAULK in right of his wife, Abigail PATTERSON. Deeds FFF, p. 74-75" _________
Wayne, I saw your query on Genforum. I have a mg for Alexander PATTERSON and Elizabeth PICKENS, but no listing of children. All I have came from the writings of Rev. E. M. Sharp, and Raymond M. Bell - both of which are pretty good sources, but not without error.
If you haven't already, you might like to visit my database at:
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=p1base
Pickens Pipeline at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tmclean/Pickens_Pipeline.html
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There is a marriage record in Roane, Tennessee of James Patterson to Martha Harold.
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Thomas Dixon found in:
Georgia, 1754-1850 Marriage Index Spouse: Patterson, Martha [Mrs] Marriage Date: Feb 20, 1845 Marriage County: Stewart County
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>From "The History of Stewart County, Georgia" by Dixon and Clark:
Among the early settlers of Stewart County were Thomas Dixon and his brother Shadrack, according to Knight's "Georgia Landmarks". Their parents were Robert Dixon and wife, Allie, possibly Merrick(*), who were married May 1, 1796 in North Carolina and came soon afterwards to Washington County, Georgia, settling near Sandersville. Here Robert died September 22, 1819, place of burial unknown. His wife died September 4, 1843, place unknown.
Thomas Dixon b. April 8, 1802; married April 17, 1823 in Washington County, Georgia, Alethia (Leathy) Elizabeth Whittle, b. June 7, 1803; daughter of John Whittle and possibly Winford Sanford of Washington County, maybe Thomas County. They moved to Stewart County about 1825, settling at Pleasant Valley, near the Horace Morton place. A spring on this land still bears the name of "Dixon Spring". He was an active member of the Richland Baptist Church and was among those who withdrew and organized the Harmony Primitive Baptist Church on January 9, 1839, when the church split over missions. He was appointed March 30, 1839 on the committee to superintend the building of a meeting house for the Harmony Church. He served as church clerk until about 1851 when he moved to Pike County, Alabama.
Letters of dismission were granted Thomas and his second wife, Mrs. Martha Hardie Patterson, January 25, 1851. However, Martha was excommunicated from the church in 1855 because she had joined a missionary church. They were members of the Union Springs Church near Brundidge, Alabama. Thomas visited Richland and Parrott the year before his death October 25, 1872, and is clearly remembered by older members of the family. He was buried near Brundidge and was survived by his wife Martha for several years. Thomas' first wife, Alethia Elizabeth Whittle, b. 1803; d. September 9, 1844; and is thought to be buried in the old Harris Cemetery in Pleasant Valley community. He married 2nd Mrs. Martha Hardie Patterson of Richland, February 20, 1845, on record in Lumpkin Courthouse. She was the daughter of John Hardie and Demeris Ethridge(**) of Stewart County(***). In 1851 he moved near Brundidge, Alabama, where his well-to-do sister lived, Catherine Dixon Blimey(****). He is said to have served in the Mexican War.
Thomas is said to have reared two children of his second wife, Jim Patterson and Mary Elizabeth Patterson.
*Later research has proved that Allie Dixon's maiden name was Tuten or Tootle.
**I believe the last name should be spelled Etheridge.
***According to Hardie family researcher, Bo Price, John & Demeris Hardie never lived in Stewart County, Georgia. Instead they lived in Wilkinson County, Georgia.
****Other researchers have shown that Catherine Dixon was married to Guilford Burney, not someone named Blimey.
From "The History of Stewart County, Georgia" by Dixon and Clark:
Pleasant Valley Cemetery Near Richland. Cemetery started in 1841 when a non-denominal church was constituted. Land given by Thomas Dixon, owner of lot 9, 23rd District.
Abstracts - Stewart County Bond Book B No. 496 Estate of Henry C. Beard: Date August 7, 1854; Administrator, Thomas Dixon; Bond $3,000; Bondsman, Daniel Mathison __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
From Shade's tree: a history of the family of Shadrach Tootle Dixon and his wives by Jim Dixon:
"III. Thomas Dixon, born 8 April 1802, married (1) Alethia "Leathy" Elizabeth Whittle 17 April 1823, in Washington County, Georgia, by whom he had nine children. After her death, he married Mrs. Martha Hardie Patterson of Richland, Georgia 20 February 1845."
"The children of Thomas Dixon and Martha Hardie Patterson, his second wife, were: (J.) Joseph Hardie Dixon, born 28 November 1845 in Georgia at age 17 joined the Confederate...."
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