The Galveston Daily News -Saturday, April 3, 1880 Page: 1
Voluntary Ending of a Long and Eventful Life
Weatherford (Parker County) Times: Had an earthquake been experienced in Parker county Monday morning last, it would not have surprised the people more than the news of the death of Mr. E. L. R. Patton, one of the oldest citizens in our midst, occasioned by his own hand. The deceased was one of the most extraordinary men of this age, and therefore the terrible act becomes the more strange and unaccountable.
For a week or two previous the afflicted wife, with whom deceased had lived without an unkind word for forty-five years, was visiting at her son's residence, near Oyster hill, in town, leaving with Mr. Patton his son George and family. On Saturday county surveyor Patton, the youngest son, took his mother home, but she returned again with him in the evening. The last sabbath was spent quietly and sacredly, without anything to indicate aberration of mind or any trouble of any kind, in the deceased. He, however, was not very well, but did not complain. He retired as usual, and arose on Monday in his accustomed health, without creating the slightest suspicion in reference to the tragedy so soon to happen. The breakfast meal was partaken by Mr. Patton and enjoyed by all the members of the household. Immediately after the son George went to the cornfield, about one block from the house, followed very soon after by Mrs. George Patton and the children. There was no one left in the house but the deceased. It seems that he spread a pallet on the floor in front of the fireplace, upon which it is supposed he lay down after removing his shoes. Then it is presumed the fatal act was perpetrated, and with his own razor. Three gashes were in the throat, and one on the left side severed the jugular vein and produced death.
Edward LeRoy Patton was born in the Spartanburg district, S. C., December 11, 1803. His parents moved to Indiana when he was quite young and settled in Davis county, where they both died, leaving him an orphan at the age of 15 years. That year, 1813, he returned to the Palmetto state and was educated at one of her colleges, mastering Greek and Latin languages and acquiring a knowledge of mathematics which made him famous. In 1821 he went to Alabama, taught school several months and then returned to Indiana, where he remained for one year. Then he took passage to New Orleans, where he joined the famous expedition under LeGrand, to locate colonies in Texas for the Mexican government. After laboring in the field as a surveyor for upwards of a year, LeGrand's mission failed and all his party were left without compensation and destitute. They separated and young Patton went into the employ of the Rocky Mountain Fur company under Sublett, and led a trapper's life for a period of five years. He was engaged with Sublett in establishing a trading post on the Yellowstone river, where he assisted in building a fort near the Yellowstone falls. Mr. Patton returned to South Carolina about 1830, and then made a tour through nearly all the states in the union, and spent considerable time in each of the principal cities. His last visiting place was Mobile. Tiring of this kind of life, he again went to the Rocky Mountains and stayed there two years. He next located in Dubois county, Indiana, in 1835, and associated with Gibson Brown in mercantile pursuits. That year he married Miss Louise Scott. In 1837 he again moved to Alabama, and in 1838 settled in Robertson county, Texas. Here he was appointed surveyor, in a district embracing all the territory between the Brazos and Trinity rivers. Subsequently he was elected two terms to the same office, and later, resigned to accept the position of county judge. In 1847 he moved to Cotton Gin, Freestone county, where he joined the Presbyterian church and soon after was made an elder. Mr. Patton came to Parker county in 1860, and settled on the Clear fork, seven miles from town.
When the ever memorable war broke out he was the first man who offered to rally to the confederate cause in this county. He joined company K, Fifth Texas mounted volunteers, Capt. C. L. Jordan; Col. Thomas Green, attached to Sibley's brigade. He was in the first battle of Valverde. In the celebrated charge on the guns of Gen. Canby he was among the foremost, and after capturing the four guns which made the distinguished Valverde battery, commande3d by Lieut. Gov. Jos. D. Sayers, he was one of the first who offered to assist in the firing. On the return home from the New Mexico campaign, in July 1862, Mr. Patton was unable to continue further than a point near Socoro, on the Rio Grande, from failing health. He received his discharge at that point, then 59 years of age.
Mr. Patton was as near a perfect man as we have in our midst. Through a long and eventful life he lived with a family of children devoted to their parents, and a wife who attachment has ever been a beautiful illustration of love. There was nothing to mar a well-spent life, but everything to make existence attractive and enjoyable. There were no crosses between the children nor lack of entire confidence between parents and children. It was a household of affection and a home of true love.
thanks to Contributor: Eric Wood (46911836)
County Chief Justice
A second Texas First Family pioneer, Edwin Leroy R. Patton, was born December 11, 1803 in Chester County, South Carolina. He married Louisa Scott, of South Carolina, born February 20, 1816. E.L.R. Patton and Louisa Scott were married in December of 1835 in Daviess County, Indiana. In 1840, the Texas Census Records of 1820-1890, indicate that Edwin Leroy Patton and his family were living in Robertson County.
The county was established by the First Texas Congress on December 14, 1837 and officially organized in 1838. Mr. E.L.R. Patton was duly elected and commissioned as Chief Justice of Robertson County on February 22, 1843. The official Commission document was written at Washington on the Brazos, and officially signed by the Republic of Texas President, Sam Houston, and the Secretary of State, Anson Jones, dated April 8, 1843.
Judge E.L.R. Patton owned substantial land holdings in the districts of Nacogdoches and Robertson through the late 1840's. On September 28, 1848, he purchased 320 acres of land from Mr. John S. Flint of Freestone County. In 1850, Mr. Patton moved his family to Limestone County and five years later, in 1855, he relocated to Cotton Gin, Freestone County where he had previously purchased 320 acres. He used the land for agricultural purposes. Between the years 1855 and 1861, Judge E.L.R. Patton was granted a quarter acre section of land (160 acres) in the Wright Community, Precinct 1, Parker County, Texas where he established a working farm. On October 1, 1861, in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, Judge E.L.R. Patton, at the age of 57, enrolled in the American Civil War as a Sergeant to serve the cause of the Confederacy. His service regiment was Captain C.L. Jordan's Company 5th Regiment Texas Cavalry (5th Mounted Volunteers, 2nd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade) Company K. He mustered into service on October 23, 1861 in San Antonio, Texas. His period of duty read, "For the war." E.L.R. Patton was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant on November 22, 1861, and resigned as Quartermaster Sergeant December 11, 1861. According to official records, Mr. Patton's enlistment dates were from October 23, 1861 through December 31,1861, followed by December 31, 1861 until April 30, 1862. Mr. Patton was honorably discharged on March 23, 1862 based on a Medical Surgeon's Certificate.
In 1867, following Judge E.L.R. Patton's service to the Confederacy, he along with numerous other male residents of Parker County, Texas, had to swear an "Oath of Allegiance" to the United States before they were allowed to vote in county, state, and federal elections. According to the 1870 United States Federal Census, Judge Patton and his family are found living in Precinct 1, the Wright Community, Parker County, Texas. Chief Justice E.L.R. Patton, an American Civil War veteran and pioneer farmer, died March 22, 1880. He is buried beside his wife Louisa (Scott) Patton who died August 1, 1886. E.L.R.
Patton and Lousia had seven children, two of which, George Ross Patton (1847-1895) and Lee Cyrus Walter Patton (1852-1884) are buried in the family plot at Clark Cemetery.
WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY: KIMBERLY (WOODY) BORETSKY
Voluntary Ending of a Long and Eventful Life
Weatherford (Parker County) Times: Had an earthquake been experienced in Parker county Monday morning last, it would not have surprised the people more than the news of the death of Mr. E. L. R. Patton, one of the oldest citizens in our midst, occasioned by his own hand. The deceased was one of the most extraordinary men of this age, and therefore the terrible act becomes the more strange and unaccountable.
For a week or two previous the afflicted wife, with whom deceased had lived without an unkind word for forty-five years, was visiting at her son's residence, near Oyster hill, in town, leaving with Mr. Patton his son George and family. On Saturday county surveyor Patton, the youngest son, took his mother home, but she returned again with him in the evening. The last sabbath was spent quietly and sacredly, without anything to indicate aberration of mind or any trouble of any kind, in the deceased. He, however, was not very well, but did not complain. He retired as usual, and arose on Monday in his accustomed health, without creating the slightest suspicion in reference to the tragedy so soon to happen. The breakfast meal was partaken by Mr. Patton and enjoyed by all the members of the household. Immediately after the son George went to the cornfield, about one block from the house, followed very soon after by Mrs. George Patton and the children. There was no one left in the house but the deceased. It seems that he spread a pallet on the floor in front of the fireplace, upon which it is supposed he lay down after removing his shoes. Then it is presumed the fatal act was perpetrated, and with his own razor. Three gashes were in the throat, and one on the left side severed the jugular vein and produced death.
Edward LeRoy Patton was born in the Spartanburg district, S. C., December 11, 1803. His parents moved to Indiana when he was quite young and settled in Davis county, where they both died, leaving him an orphan at the age of 15 years. That year, 1813, he returned to the Palmetto state and was educated at one of her colleges, mastering Greek and Latin languages and acquiring a knowledge of mathematics which made him famous. In 1821 he went to Alabama, taught school several months and then returned to Indiana, where he remained for one year. Then he took passage to New Orleans, where he joined the famous expedition under LeGrand, to locate colonies in Texas for the Mexican government. After laboring in the field as a surveyor for upwards of a year, LeGrand's mission failed and all his party were left without compensation and destitute. They separated and young Patton went into the employ of the Rocky Mountain Fur company under Sublett, and led a trapper's life for a period of five years. He was engaged with Sublett in establishing a trading post on the Yellowstone river, where he assisted in building a fort near the Yellowstone falls. Mr. Patton returned to South Carolina about 1830, and then made a tour through nearly all the states in the union, and spent considerable time in each of the principal cities. His last visiting place was Mobile. Tiring of this kind of life, he again went to the Rocky Mountains and stayed there two years. He next located in Dubois county, Indiana, in 1835, and associated with Gibson Brown in mercantile pursuits. That year he married Miss Louise Scott. In 1837 he again moved to Alabama, and in 1838 settled in Robertson county, Texas. Here he was appointed surveyor, in a district embracing all the territory between the Brazos and Trinity rivers. Subsequently he was elected two terms to the same office, and later, resigned to accept the position of county judge. In 1847 he moved to Cotton Gin, Freestone county, where he joined the Presbyterian church and soon after was made an elder. Mr. Patton came to Parker county in 1860, and settled on the Clear fork, seven miles from town.
When the ever memorable war broke out he was the first man who offered to rally to the confederate cause in this county. He joined company K, Fifth Texas mounted volunteers, Capt. C. L. Jordan; Col. Thomas Green, attached to Sibley's brigade. He was in the first battle of Valverde. In the celebrated charge on the guns of Gen. Canby he was among the foremost, and after capturing the four guns which made the distinguished Valverde battery, commande3d by Lieut. Gov. Jos. D. Sayers, he was one of the first who offered to assist in the firing. On the return home from the New Mexico campaign, in July 1862, Mr. Patton was unable to continue further than a point near Socoro, on the Rio Grande, from failing health. He received his discharge at that point, then 59 years of age.
Mr. Patton was as near a perfect man as we have in our midst. Through a long and eventful life he lived with a family of children devoted to their parents, and a wife who attachment has ever been a beautiful illustration of love. There was nothing to mar a well-spent life, but everything to make existence attractive and enjoyable. There were no crosses between the children nor lack of entire confidence between parents and children. It was a household of affection and a home of true love.
thanks to Contributor: Eric Wood (46911836)
County Chief Justice
A second Texas First Family pioneer, Edwin Leroy R. Patton, was born December 11, 1803 in Chester County, South Carolina. He married Louisa Scott, of South Carolina, born February 20, 1816. E.L.R. Patton and Louisa Scott were married in December of 1835 in Daviess County, Indiana. In 1840, the Texas Census Records of 1820-1890, indicate that Edwin Leroy Patton and his family were living in Robertson County.
The county was established by the First Texas Congress on December 14, 1837 and officially organized in 1838. Mr. E.L.R. Patton was duly elected and commissioned as Chief Justice of Robertson County on February 22, 1843. The official Commission document was written at Washington on the Brazos, and officially signed by the Republic of Texas President, Sam Houston, and the Secretary of State, Anson Jones, dated April 8, 1843.
Judge E.L.R. Patton owned substantial land holdings in the districts of Nacogdoches and Robertson through the late 1840's. On September 28, 1848, he purchased 320 acres of land from Mr. John S. Flint of Freestone County. In 1850, Mr. Patton moved his family to Limestone County and five years later, in 1855, he relocated to Cotton Gin, Freestone County where he had previously purchased 320 acres. He used the land for agricultural purposes. Between the years 1855 and 1861, Judge E.L.R. Patton was granted a quarter acre section of land (160 acres) in the Wright Community, Precinct 1, Parker County, Texas where he established a working farm. On October 1, 1861, in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, Judge E.L.R. Patton, at the age of 57, enrolled in the American Civil War as a Sergeant to serve the cause of the Confederacy. His service regiment was Captain C.L. Jordan's Company 5th Regiment Texas Cavalry (5th Mounted Volunteers, 2nd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade) Company K. He mustered into service on October 23, 1861 in San Antonio, Texas. His period of duty read, "For the war." E.L.R. Patton was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant on November 22, 1861, and resigned as Quartermaster Sergeant December 11, 1861. According to official records, Mr. Patton's enlistment dates were from October 23, 1861 through December 31,1861, followed by December 31, 1861 until April 30, 1862. Mr. Patton was honorably discharged on March 23, 1862 based on a Medical Surgeon's Certificate.
In 1867, following Judge E.L.R. Patton's service to the Confederacy, he along with numerous other male residents of Parker County, Texas, had to swear an "Oath of Allegiance" to the United States before they were allowed to vote in county, state, and federal elections. According to the 1870 United States Federal Census, Judge Patton and his family are found living in Precinct 1, the Wright Community, Parker County, Texas. Chief Justice E.L.R. Patton, an American Civil War veteran and pioneer farmer, died March 22, 1880. He is buried beside his wife Louisa (Scott) Patton who died August 1, 1886. E.L.R.
Patton and Lousia had seven children, two of which, George Ross Patton (1847-1895) and Lee Cyrus Walter Patton (1852-1884) are buried in the family plot at Clark Cemetery.
WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY: KIMBERLY (WOODY) BORETSKY
The Galveston Daily News -Saturday, April 3, 1880 Page: 1
Voluntary Ending of a Long and Eventful Life
Weatherford (Parker County) Times: Had an earthquake been experienced in Parker county Monday morning last, it would not have surprised the people more than the news of the death of Mr. E. L. R. Patton, one of the oldest citizens in our midst, occasioned by his own hand. The deceased was one of the most extraordinary men of this age, and therefore the terrible act becomes the more strange and unaccountable.
For a week or two previous the afflicted wife, with whom deceased had lived without an unkind word for forty-five years, was visiting at her son's residence, near Oyster hill, in town, leaving with Mr. Patton his son George and family. On Saturday county surveyor Patton, the youngest son, took his mother home, but she returned again with him in the evening. The last sabbath was spent quietly and sacredly, without anything to indicate aberration of mind or any trouble of any kind, in the deceased. He, however, was not very well, but did not complain. He retired as usual, and arose on Monday in his accustomed health, without creating the slightest suspicion in reference to the tragedy so soon to happen. The breakfast meal was partaken by Mr. Patton and enjoyed by all the members of the household. Immediately after the son George went to the cornfield, about one block from the house, followed very soon after by Mrs. George Patton and the children. There was no one left in the house but the deceased. It seems that he spread a pallet on the floor in front of the fireplace, upon which it is supposed he lay down after removing his shoes. Then it is presumed the fatal act was perpetrated, and with his own razor. Three gashes were in the throat, and one on the left side severed the jugular vein and produced death.
Edward LeRoy Patton was born in the Spartanburg district, S. C., December 11, 1803. His parents moved to Indiana when he was quite young and settled in Davis county, where they both died, leaving him an orphan at the age of 15 years. That year, 1813, he returned to the Palmetto state and was educated at one of her colleges, mastering Greek and Latin languages and acquiring a knowledge of mathematics which made him famous. In 1821 he went to Alabama, taught school several months and then returned to Indiana, where he remained for one year. Then he took passage to New Orleans, where he joined the famous expedition under LeGrand, to locate colonies in Texas for the Mexican government. After laboring in the field as a surveyor for upwards of a year, LeGrand's mission failed and all his party were left without compensation and destitute. They separated and young Patton went into the employ of the Rocky Mountain Fur company under Sublett, and led a trapper's life for a period of five years. He was engaged with Sublett in establishing a trading post on the Yellowstone river, where he assisted in building a fort near the Yellowstone falls. Mr. Patton returned to South Carolina about 1830, and then made a tour through nearly all the states in the union, and spent considerable time in each of the principal cities. His last visiting place was Mobile. Tiring of this kind of life, he again went to the Rocky Mountains and stayed there two years. He next located in Dubois county, Indiana, in 1835, and associated with Gibson Brown in mercantile pursuits. That year he married Miss Louise Scott. In 1837 he again moved to Alabama, and in 1838 settled in Robertson county, Texas. Here he was appointed surveyor, in a district embracing all the territory between the Brazos and Trinity rivers. Subsequently he was elected two terms to the same office, and later, resigned to accept the position of county judge. In 1847 he moved to Cotton Gin, Freestone county, where he joined the Presbyterian church and soon after was made an elder. Mr. Patton came to Parker county in 1860, and settled on the Clear fork, seven miles from town.
When the ever memorable war broke out he was the first man who offered to rally to the confederate cause in this county. He joined company K, Fifth Texas mounted volunteers, Capt. C. L. Jordan; Col. Thomas Green, attached to Sibley's brigade. He was in the first battle of Valverde. In the celebrated charge on the guns of Gen. Canby he was among the foremost, and after capturing the four guns which made the distinguished Valverde battery, commande3d by Lieut. Gov. Jos. D. Sayers, he was one of the first who offered to assist in the firing. On the return home from the New Mexico campaign, in July 1862, Mr. Patton was unable to continue further than a point near Socoro, on the Rio Grande, from failing health. He received his discharge at that point, then 59 years of age.
Mr. Patton was as near a perfect man as we have in our midst. Through a long and eventful life he lived with a family of children devoted to their parents, and a wife who attachment has ever been a beautiful illustration of love. There was nothing to mar a well-spent life, but everything to make existence attractive and enjoyable. There were no crosses between the children nor lack of entire confidence between parents and children. It was a household of affection and a home of true love.
thanks to Contributor: Eric Wood (46911836)
County Chief Justice
A second Texas First Family pioneer, Edwin Leroy R. Patton, was born December 11, 1803 in Chester County, South Carolina. He married Louisa Scott, of South Carolina, born February 20, 1816. E.L.R. Patton and Louisa Scott were married in December of 1835 in Daviess County, Indiana. In 1840, the Texas Census Records of 1820-1890, indicate that Edwin Leroy Patton and his family were living in Robertson County.
The county was established by the First Texas Congress on December 14, 1837 and officially organized in 1838. Mr. E.L.R. Patton was duly elected and commissioned as Chief Justice of Robertson County on February 22, 1843. The official Commission document was written at Washington on the Brazos, and officially signed by the Republic of Texas President, Sam Houston, and the Secretary of State, Anson Jones, dated April 8, 1843.
Judge E.L.R. Patton owned substantial land holdings in the districts of Nacogdoches and Robertson through the late 1840's. On September 28, 1848, he purchased 320 acres of land from Mr. John S. Flint of Freestone County. In 1850, Mr. Patton moved his family to Limestone County and five years later, in 1855, he relocated to Cotton Gin, Freestone County where he had previously purchased 320 acres. He used the land for agricultural purposes. Between the years 1855 and 1861, Judge E.L.R. Patton was granted a quarter acre section of land (160 acres) in the Wright Community, Precinct 1, Parker County, Texas where he established a working farm. On October 1, 1861, in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, Judge E.L.R. Patton, at the age of 57, enrolled in the American Civil War as a Sergeant to serve the cause of the Confederacy. His service regiment was Captain C.L. Jordan's Company 5th Regiment Texas Cavalry (5th Mounted Volunteers, 2nd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade) Company K. He mustered into service on October 23, 1861 in San Antonio, Texas. His period of duty read, "For the war." E.L.R. Patton was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant on November 22, 1861, and resigned as Quartermaster Sergeant December 11, 1861. According to official records, Mr. Patton's enlistment dates were from October 23, 1861 through December 31,1861, followed by December 31, 1861 until April 30, 1862. Mr. Patton was honorably discharged on March 23, 1862 based on a Medical Surgeon's Certificate.
In 1867, following Judge E.L.R. Patton's service to the Confederacy, he along with numerous other male residents of Parker County, Texas, had to swear an "Oath of Allegiance" to the United States before they were allowed to vote in county, state, and federal elections. According to the 1870 United States Federal Census, Judge Patton and his family are found living in Precinct 1, the Wright Community, Parker County, Texas. Chief Justice E.L.R. Patton, an American Civil War veteran and pioneer farmer, died March 22, 1880. He is buried beside his wife Louisa (Scott) Patton who died August 1, 1886. E.L.R.
Patton and Lousia had seven children, two of which, George Ross Patton (1847-1895) and Lee Cyrus Walter Patton (1852-1884) are buried in the family plot at Clark Cemetery.
WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY: KIMBERLY (WOODY) BORETSKY
Voluntary Ending of a Long and Eventful Life
Weatherford (Parker County) Times: Had an earthquake been experienced in Parker county Monday morning last, it would not have surprised the people more than the news of the death of Mr. E. L. R. Patton, one of the oldest citizens in our midst, occasioned by his own hand. The deceased was one of the most extraordinary men of this age, and therefore the terrible act becomes the more strange and unaccountable.
For a week or two previous the afflicted wife, with whom deceased had lived without an unkind word for forty-five years, was visiting at her son's residence, near Oyster hill, in town, leaving with Mr. Patton his son George and family. On Saturday county surveyor Patton, the youngest son, took his mother home, but she returned again with him in the evening. The last sabbath was spent quietly and sacredly, without anything to indicate aberration of mind or any trouble of any kind, in the deceased. He, however, was not very well, but did not complain. He retired as usual, and arose on Monday in his accustomed health, without creating the slightest suspicion in reference to the tragedy so soon to happen. The breakfast meal was partaken by Mr. Patton and enjoyed by all the members of the household. Immediately after the son George went to the cornfield, about one block from the house, followed very soon after by Mrs. George Patton and the children. There was no one left in the house but the deceased. It seems that he spread a pallet on the floor in front of the fireplace, upon which it is supposed he lay down after removing his shoes. Then it is presumed the fatal act was perpetrated, and with his own razor. Three gashes were in the throat, and one on the left side severed the jugular vein and produced death.
Edward LeRoy Patton was born in the Spartanburg district, S. C., December 11, 1803. His parents moved to Indiana when he was quite young and settled in Davis county, where they both died, leaving him an orphan at the age of 15 years. That year, 1813, he returned to the Palmetto state and was educated at one of her colleges, mastering Greek and Latin languages and acquiring a knowledge of mathematics which made him famous. In 1821 he went to Alabama, taught school several months and then returned to Indiana, where he remained for one year. Then he took passage to New Orleans, where he joined the famous expedition under LeGrand, to locate colonies in Texas for the Mexican government. After laboring in the field as a surveyor for upwards of a year, LeGrand's mission failed and all his party were left without compensation and destitute. They separated and young Patton went into the employ of the Rocky Mountain Fur company under Sublett, and led a trapper's life for a period of five years. He was engaged with Sublett in establishing a trading post on the Yellowstone river, where he assisted in building a fort near the Yellowstone falls. Mr. Patton returned to South Carolina about 1830, and then made a tour through nearly all the states in the union, and spent considerable time in each of the principal cities. His last visiting place was Mobile. Tiring of this kind of life, he again went to the Rocky Mountains and stayed there two years. He next located in Dubois county, Indiana, in 1835, and associated with Gibson Brown in mercantile pursuits. That year he married Miss Louise Scott. In 1837 he again moved to Alabama, and in 1838 settled in Robertson county, Texas. Here he was appointed surveyor, in a district embracing all the territory between the Brazos and Trinity rivers. Subsequently he was elected two terms to the same office, and later, resigned to accept the position of county judge. In 1847 he moved to Cotton Gin, Freestone county, where he joined the Presbyterian church and soon after was made an elder. Mr. Patton came to Parker county in 1860, and settled on the Clear fork, seven miles from town.
When the ever memorable war broke out he was the first man who offered to rally to the confederate cause in this county. He joined company K, Fifth Texas mounted volunteers, Capt. C. L. Jordan; Col. Thomas Green, attached to Sibley's brigade. He was in the first battle of Valverde. In the celebrated charge on the guns of Gen. Canby he was among the foremost, and after capturing the four guns which made the distinguished Valverde battery, commande3d by Lieut. Gov. Jos. D. Sayers, he was one of the first who offered to assist in the firing. On the return home from the New Mexico campaign, in July 1862, Mr. Patton was unable to continue further than a point near Socoro, on the Rio Grande, from failing health. He received his discharge at that point, then 59 years of age.
Mr. Patton was as near a perfect man as we have in our midst. Through a long and eventful life he lived with a family of children devoted to their parents, and a wife who attachment has ever been a beautiful illustration of love. There was nothing to mar a well-spent life, but everything to make existence attractive and enjoyable. There were no crosses between the children nor lack of entire confidence between parents and children. It was a household of affection and a home of true love.
thanks to Contributor: Eric Wood (46911836)
County Chief Justice
A second Texas First Family pioneer, Edwin Leroy R. Patton, was born December 11, 1803 in Chester County, South Carolina. He married Louisa Scott, of South Carolina, born February 20, 1816. E.L.R. Patton and Louisa Scott were married in December of 1835 in Daviess County, Indiana. In 1840, the Texas Census Records of 1820-1890, indicate that Edwin Leroy Patton and his family were living in Robertson County.
The county was established by the First Texas Congress on December 14, 1837 and officially organized in 1838. Mr. E.L.R. Patton was duly elected and commissioned as Chief Justice of Robertson County on February 22, 1843. The official Commission document was written at Washington on the Brazos, and officially signed by the Republic of Texas President, Sam Houston, and the Secretary of State, Anson Jones, dated April 8, 1843.
Judge E.L.R. Patton owned substantial land holdings in the districts of Nacogdoches and Robertson through the late 1840's. On September 28, 1848, he purchased 320 acres of land from Mr. John S. Flint of Freestone County. In 1850, Mr. Patton moved his family to Limestone County and five years later, in 1855, he relocated to Cotton Gin, Freestone County where he had previously purchased 320 acres. He used the land for agricultural purposes. Between the years 1855 and 1861, Judge E.L.R. Patton was granted a quarter acre section of land (160 acres) in the Wright Community, Precinct 1, Parker County, Texas where he established a working farm. On October 1, 1861, in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas, Judge E.L.R. Patton, at the age of 57, enrolled in the American Civil War as a Sergeant to serve the cause of the Confederacy. His service regiment was Captain C.L. Jordan's Company 5th Regiment Texas Cavalry (5th Mounted Volunteers, 2nd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade) Company K. He mustered into service on October 23, 1861 in San Antonio, Texas. His period of duty read, "For the war." E.L.R. Patton was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant on November 22, 1861, and resigned as Quartermaster Sergeant December 11, 1861. According to official records, Mr. Patton's enlistment dates were from October 23, 1861 through December 31,1861, followed by December 31, 1861 until April 30, 1862. Mr. Patton was honorably discharged on March 23, 1862 based on a Medical Surgeon's Certificate.
In 1867, following Judge E.L.R. Patton's service to the Confederacy, he along with numerous other male residents of Parker County, Texas, had to swear an "Oath of Allegiance" to the United States before they were allowed to vote in county, state, and federal elections. According to the 1870 United States Federal Census, Judge Patton and his family are found living in Precinct 1, the Wright Community, Parker County, Texas. Chief Justice E.L.R. Patton, an American Civil War veteran and pioneer farmer, died March 22, 1880. He is buried beside his wife Louisa (Scott) Patton who died August 1, 1886. E.L.R.
Patton and Lousia had seven children, two of which, George Ross Patton (1847-1895) and Lee Cyrus Walter Patton (1852-1884) are buried in the family plot at Clark Cemetery.
WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY: KIMBERLY (WOODY) BORETSKY
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