Overview of cemetery to locate the grave of J.M. Patterson......on the hillside near PEEK graves. Confederate flag placed on the grave May 7, 2013 by ngl when this photograph was made. [Additional data learned in 2014: Tony Holcomb of Boaz ordered this military marker for his ancestor.]

James Martin Patterson - lost his left leg in the Civil War and has been referred to as "Peg-leg Patterson." Military description: 6 ft. tall, black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion.
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Alabama, Select Marriages
Name: James M. Patterson
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 6 Jun 1852 <----------------
Marriage Place: Coosa,Alabama
Spouse: Roda Tylor (notation)
FHL Film Number: 1290263 IT 1-4
(NOTATION: Family says name: Rhoda Ann Tyler)

After 1870 census records and before 1878, Rhoda Ann had died. James M. married March 15, 1878 in Marshall County Mrs. Angie Ann Carroll Smith, a widow with two children. James M.'s third marriage on August 6, 1889 in Etowah County, AL to Ann Windham. She survived him and drew his Civil War pension.

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U.S. and International Marriage Records
Name: James M Patterson
Gender: Male
Birth Place: AL
Birth Year: 1832
Spouse Name: Angie Ann Carroll
Spouse
Birth Place: SC
Spouse Birth Year: 1852
Marriage Year: 1878 <-------------
Marriage State: Alabama

Another record for Alabama Marriages:
Name: James M. Patterson
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 15 Mar 1878
Marriage Place: Marshall, Alabama
Spouse: Ann Smith
FHL Film Number: 1035276

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Note: Angie Ann Carroll first married Mr. Smith and had two children.

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Etowah Co., AL Marriage Record:
(this was James M. "Peg-leg" Patterson third marriage - Ann "called Annie" Windham)

Name: James M. Patterson
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 6 Aug 1889 <--------
Marriage Place: Etowah,Alabama
Spouse: Ann Windham
FHL Film Number: 1035318 V. C

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Pension records for ANNIE PATTERSON shows her husband, James Patterson died MAY 5, 1909
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JAMES M. PATTERSON - Civil War Record

James Patterson enlisted in the Confederate Army early in 1862 in Rockford, Coosa County, Alabama. He entered as a private and in May 1862, he was elected 4th Corporal. During April and May of that year his company, Company B, 2nd Battalion, Hillard's Legion, trained at Camp Mary under W.D. Walden. The first place they were sent to take place in the war was Tennessee, near Knoxville then on to Chattanooga, marched to Atlanta, Georgia around July 4th and on July 11th they were ordered back to Chattanooga. The first battle this unit took part in was the seige of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee on September 22, 1862. The winter of 1862-63 was spent in various places in Kentucky and east Tennessee to protect Confederate holds. James Patterson's war record lists various battles. After losing many of the 2nd Battalion in battle, this battalion was merged to form the 59th Alabama Infantry and James was in Company K. Again, they fought many battles and were in Petersburg, Virginia by June 30, 1864. On his pension records, James states that he was injured on July 14, 1864 by a shell. He was listed in General Hosptial, Howard's Grove, Richmond, Virginia arriving July 20, 1864. The nature of his wound is "V.S. left ankle joint, taking off foot." That same they they amputated at the middle 3rd of the left leg. The records indicate his condition was "bad" after the amputation. When the next muster roll was taken in October 1864, James is listed as absent on sick-furlough. In July 1865, in Montgomery, Alabama, he pledges an oath to the United States. The war is over, James returned home to his family, being a farmer with one less part of his left leg. The artifical limbs at that time were made of wood, and James seemed to have been known as "Peg-Leg" Patterson by many people afterwards. Some of the descendants didn't recall his first name (Bits and pieces of family research written by his great-granddaughter, Vickie Dunn Garmon in 1992)


JAMES M. PATTERSON

Father: William Patterson, born in South Carolina and died Dec. 1836 in Montgomery County, Alabama

Mother: Permilia "Milly" Patterson, born 1798 in Virginia. After the death of William, Milly and her children moved to Coosa County, Alabama.

Siblings of James M.: Violet Patterson Horton Pond, Frances Patterson Freeman, Elizabeth Patterson (married a Patterson), John A. Patterson, Malinda Patterson Shin. (may not be in birth order.) Research provided by Vickie Dunn Garmon/Gloria Dunn Johnson, descendants of Maggie Eola Violet Patterson Dunn, daughter of James M. Patterson and wife #2 Angie Ann Carroll Smith Patterson.