William Morgan Patterson (1808-1845)

William Morgan Patterson

Birth

12 Jul 1808

Ohio County, Kentucky, USA

Death

13 Aug 1845 (aged 37)

Grayson County, Kentucky, USA

Burial

Shain Cemetery Old

Pine Knob, Grayson County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map

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William Morgan Patterson was the son of Joseph Patterson and Sarah Martin of Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. William was born July 12, 1808 in Ohio County, Kentucky. William Morgan Patterson married Susannah Shain, the daughter of James Shain and Theodocia Compton, on September 27, 1827 in Grayson County, Kentucky. William Morgan Patterson owned 660 acres of land.

William and Susannah were the parents of the following children born in Grayson County:
1. John Marion Patterson b: 9 Nov 1828
-- m. Margaret Day on 10 Mar 1853
2. Sarah Josephine Patterson b: 3 Nov 1830
3. Nancy Patterson b: 3 Feb 1833
-- m. Greenberry Gaither on 20 Sep 1855
4. Mary Patterson b: 14 Apr 1835
-- m. Samuel Porter about 1855
5. Ellen Patterson b: 6 Dec 1836
-- m/1. William Franklin Porter
-- m/2. Edward Young
6. Jane E Patterson b: 5 Jul 1838
-- m. Joel Payton
7. Harriet Patterson b: 7 Feb 1840
-- n. Washington Young
8. Susannah Patterson b: 16 Jul 1841
-- m. Frank Porter
9. William Franklin Patterson b: 12 Jan 1843
-- m/1. Louann Jane Crume on 28 Nov 1865
-- m/2. Sarah Elizabeth Pickerell 22 Nov 1888
10. Ellizabeth Patterson b: 23 Sep 1844

Daniel Enon Patterson (findagrave #27816630) was the illegitimate son of Winny Ann Shain and William Morgan Patterson. William was married to Susannah Shain....oldest child of James. When James Shain died in 1835, Winny went to live with her older sister and family and then turned up pregnant ****Taken from the Shain family bible**** http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wcbeatty/biblerec.htm

William Morgan Patterson died of typhoid fever in Grayson County on August 13, 1845 at the age of 37 years, 1 month and 1 day. Traditionally his body was taken to the cemetery on a sled pulled by white horses and laid to rest beside his daughter, Sarah Josephine Patterson, who died on August 25, 1834. Ellis Payton carved his headstone. They are buried in the Old Shain Cemetery near Pine Knob, Grayson County, Kentucky. His widowm Susannah Shain Patterson, died 39 years later in Arpil of 1884 at the age of 73 plus years. She was buried in the Patterson Cemetery in Short Creek, Grayson County, Kentucky.