-----Original Message----- From: MWal608508@aol.com <MWal608508@aol.com> To: cmccoy@frontiernet.net <cmccoy@frontiernet.net> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 4:52 PM Subject: Article >Cindy, > >Here is another article. > > > >>From the Monroe Journal Centennial Edition supplemental issue May 1, 1969 > > Patrick Family Came to Alabama from South Carolina in 1700's > > The Patrick family came to alabama from South Carolina, evidently in the >17th century, and chose Midway in the northern part of Monroe county to build >their home. > The first home, built of logs, two large bedrooms with an open hall >dividing them and a large kitchen, seperated from the house, housed this old >family... > Names of the parents of the Monroe County Patrick family are unknown. >They had three sons, Hiram, Milligan and Wiley. > Hiram married Didwa Cotton, June 14, 1838, and they had several children, >all deceased with the exception of Vera, who now makes her home in Canoe. > Milligan was married Dec., 1847, to Linsey Rumbly, she preceded him in >death and he took as his wife, Martha Emmons in 1854. To this union, three >children were born, Annie, Fannie and Richard. The girls were never married >and operated a hat shop on the square in Monroeville. Richard studied >medicine and was married to a Miss McGowin. They were parents of three >children, Lloyd, Albert and Frank. > Wiley A. Patrick was married to Jane Parmelia Brooks and they were >parents of seven children: William Hiram, John, samuel, Jane, Rebecca, Mary >and Luke. > William Hiran (Dick) Patrick married Amanda Hardee Sept. 6, 1866. They >had a child, a daughter, who married John Estie Cobb. Following his first >wife's death he was married to Mrs. Kitty Skinner. No children were born to >this union. > John chose Elizabeth Booker to be his wife and they were married Nov. 6, >1859. this couple had nine children: Zenus, John, Jr., Elizabeth, Fannie, >Emma, Mattie, Sarah, W. H. and W. R. > Samuel was married to Beatrice Stacey, Nov. 12, 1882. The too, had nine >children: Ida, Jane, Susan, :Lucy, Albert, Daisy, Frank, Mary and Rose. > Jane was married to Bryant Hardee, June 2, 1864. They were the partents >of two children, Myra and Molly. > Rebecca was married to John Booker, March 9, 1865, and they had two >children Whitman and John. > Mary, who married William Martin, Sept 25, 1861, was the mother of >several children, Samuel Patrick and william Hiram, were the only two names >listed. > Luke never married. > Three sons, William H (Dick), John and Samuel, all served with >distinction during the "War Between the States". Samuel ran away at the age >of 16 and joined Dick, who was in Captain Tom Riley's Company. Capt. Tom >Riley, was also a Monroe Countain. The served together under General Forest >and Dick was amoung his troop when Emma Sanson guided the army to a ford when >a bridge was burned by the Union soldiers. Later, when Dick's daughter was >born, she was named for Emma Sanson. > One of Dick's favorite stories was his experience in the hills of >Tennessee. Soldiers were on starvation. There was meat but no shortening. >Finding a section where scalybark trees grew, the soldiers gathered nuts, >cracked and picked out the meat and made cracklin bread. They found a hog >wandering among the trees, eating the nuts, so they caught it, carried it to >camp, cooked and ate it with their bread. A neighbor of Dick's and a >well-known Christian gentleman refused to eat the meat because it was stolen, >he said. However, it wasn't long until the soldiers began pouring gravy on >their bread and the companion said, "Dick I believe I will have a little of >the gravy. > Vicissitudes and reverses in life followed Dick and following the war his >second house was burned to ashes. However, in those days, one man's trouble >was that of his community, and whether it was illness, bereavement, >housebuilding or log splitting, neighbors were there to help, both black and >white. And so, it was with the Patrick family, who came to Monroe County >from South Carolina. >