This obit on Walter Patterson was in Billy's obits. Can anyone connect or tell me more about his father, Samuel? Shirley Muncie Union City Times-Gazette, Wednesday, June 18, 1941 Children mourning death of father. Walter Patterson and Mrs. Paul Hart, of Union City, are mourning the death of their father, James Irvin Patterson, 82, resident of Greenville and native of Franklin township, Darke county, which occurred Monday night at his Greenville home. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. (EST) Thursday at the residence, 328 West Third street, Greenville. Burial will be in the Greenville cemetery. Survivors include four sons, and four daughters; Walter and Mrs. Hart, of Union City; Harry, of Dayton; Charles, of Arcanum; Marion, of Greenville; Mrs. James Royer, of New Madison; Mrs. Floyd Good and Mrs. Gladys Byers, both of Greenville. There also is a step-brother, Roy Hill, of Gettysburg, O. (Miller Funeral Home Records state that he was born July 1, 1859 in Franklin Twp., Darke Co., the son of Samuel Patterson and Rachel Williams.)