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• Name: Thomas PATTON
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1787 ^b
• Death: 12 Feb 1874 ^d
• Burial: Rehoboth Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Belle Vernon, Westmoreland Co, Pennsylva ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Joseph PATTON Birth: 1746 in Cumberland Co, Pennsylvania Death: 2 Dec 1822 in Washington Twp, Fayette Co, Pennsylvania
Mother:

• Sarah WEIR Birth: 2 Dec 1750 in Washington Co, Pennsylvania Death: 14 Apr 1832 in Washington Twp, Fayette Co, Pennsylvania

Family:
Marriage:

• Annis HARRIS .^m1
  
• Annis HARRIS Birth: 1791 Death: 1868

Children:

1. James Harris PATTON
2. Sarah Rebecca PATTON
3. John PATTON
4. Rachel PATTON
5. Joseph Findlay PATTON
6. Thomas PATTON
7. Harriet PATTON Birth: 1824 in Rostraver Twp, Westmoreland Co, Pennsylvania

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Borman PATTON p7, CCHS PATTON, DAR #615026, DAR #654352]

1785 [Ref: Sarah DeBold 2/9/2022],

parents:

[Ref: Borman PATTON p7, CCHS PATTON, DAR #615026, DAR #654352, DAR #727213, Jordan FayetteCoPA v3p841, Lignian RehobothChurch p170, PattonJS PATTON p101, Sarah DeBold 2/9/2022]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Borman PATTON p7]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Borman PATTON p7, CCHS PATTON, PattonJS PATTON p105]

Sources with Information about marriage to Annis HARRIS

names:

[Ref: Borman PATTON p7, DAR #654352, Sarah DeBold 2/9/2022],

child:

[Ref: CCHS PATTON, PattonJS PATTON p105]

Research Notes:
received $19.50 in final settlement of estate of father [Ref: FayetteCoPA Estates Patton Joseph]

Will dated Mar 11 186x. Mentioned wife, son J Findley, other children Rebecca Findley, R J Patton, Harriet Mereseman, Rachel P Brown, J M Patton, Sarah Boyd, Thomas Patton [Ref: FayetteCoPA Wills 4-484]

codicil to will dated 30 Jul 1868, mentioned wife and son Findley [Ref: FayetteCoPA Wills 4-484]

codicil to will dated 12 Apr 1893, mentions son Findley and seven other children (unnamed) [Ref: FayetteCoPA Wills 4-484]

Will proved 2 Mar 1894 [Ref: FayetteCoPA Wills 4-484]

---------- Will given in Fayette County Will Book 4 page 484:
In the name of God Amen, I Thomas Patton, of Washington Township, Lafayette County, Pennsylvania, being of sound mind, memory, and understanding, and blessed be God for the same, do make publish and declare this to be my last will and testament hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made. Item 1. I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses including suitable gravestones for myself and wife be paid by my executor hereafter named. Item 2. I will and devise to my son J Findley Patton, the farm upon which I now reside containing 134 acres more or less, also all my personal estate after the payment of those things specified in clause first. Item 3. I will and direct that my said son Findley, in consideration of the foregoing requests, shall maintain his mother during her natural lifetime and provide her sufficient house Room in the House in which I now reside, together with all things that may be necessary for her health and comfort, and in addition thereto he is to pay her one hundred dollars annually as long as she shall live, and this request shall be in lieu of her dower and interest at law in my estate. Item 4. I further direct that my said son Findley in consideration of the foregoing requests pay to his following brothers and sisters, viz: Rebecca Findley, R J Patton, Harriet Mereseman, and Rachel P Brown, the sum of seven hundred dollars each, and to J M Patton, the sum of four hundred dollars, he having already received three hundred dollars. And to Sarah Boyd the sum of six hundred dollars, she having already received one hundred dollars, all said legacies to be had for them three years after my decease. Item 5. I will and bequeath to my son Thomas Patton all of the real estate that I own in the State of Iowa supposed to be four hundred acres. Item 6. I hereby appoint my son J Findley Patton executor of this will. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this the eleventh day of March 186-. Thomas Patton.
Signed sealed published and declared by the above named Thomas Patton, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names at his request as witness thereto in the presence of the said testator and each other. Hiram Patton, John Fuller.
I Thomas Patton, the above named testator, being of sound and disposing mind, and memory, do make the following alteration in the foregoing Will, viz: I will and direct that my said son Findley pay to his mother five hundred dollars in addition to what she is to get by the foregoing will, said five hundred to be paid at my decease. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the 30 day of July 1868. Thomas Patton.
Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the above named Thomas Patton as his will in our presence, Hiram Patton, John Fuller.
I Thomas Patton, the foregoing named testator, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make the following alteration to the foregoing Will, viz: Since making said will the coal underlying the farm upon which I now reside and which I gave to my son Findley, in the foregoing Will has become of more value at that time, I will and bequeath unto the said Findley Patton ten acres of the coal underlying the house in which I now reside. The residue of the coal underlying the above named farm I will and direct to be divided into nine equal shares or parts, and that my son Findley to have two of said shares or parts, and the other seven shares or parts to my other seven children, share and share alike. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the twelvth day of April 1893. Thomas Patton.
Signed sealed and published by the said Thomas Patton the testator to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto set our names as witnesses thereto in the presence of the testator and at his request. John Fuller. Hiram Patton.
Fayette County, SS: Be it known that on this the second day of March, A.D. 1894, before me J Beatty, Register of the Probate of Wills and Granting of Letters of Administration in and for said County personally came John Fuller and Hiram patton, the subscribing witnesses of the foregoing will of Thomas Patton, decd, (and also to the two alterations or codacils thereto annexed) who being duly qualified according to law depose and say that they were present and say the said Thomas Patton sign and seal, and heard him declare the same to be his last will and testament, when of sound and disposing mind and memory, to the best of their belief, that they signed their names as witnesses thereto by the request of the said testator in his presence and in the presence of each other, that they knew of no undue influence used in making said will, also that they were present and saw the said Thomas Patton sign and seal each of the codicils to said will annexed at their respective dates, and heard him declare the same to be parts and parcels of his last will and testament, when of sound and disposing mind and memory, to the best of their belief, that they signed their names to each of the said codicils as witnesses thereto, on the respective dates thereof, by the request of the said testator in his presence and in the presence of each other, that they knew of no undue influence in the making of said codicils or any later will or codicils made. In Witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Registers Office at Uniontown the day and year above written. Joe Beatty.
Registered and compared, March 9th, 1894. [Ref: FayetteCoPA Wills 4-484]



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 /-----Joseph PATTON
Thomas PATTON
 \-----Sarah WEIR



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