NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11234 BOURBON CO – JANE MAXWELL PATTERSON – Patterson, McCune, Munn 11234 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, pp. 442-443. JANE MAXWELL PATTERSON. This aged and most estimable lady was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, in the month of February, 1800. In 1816 or 1817 she came with her mother and step-father, John McCune, to Pike county, Missouri, and settled on the place long known as the old McCune farm, but now owned and occupied by Mrs. Julia Munn. But a few years after coming to the state she was married to John Patterson with whom she continued to live until his death, some twelve or fourteen years ago. At the time of her marriage she moved to her husband’s house, about a half-mile from her step-father’s house and here she has continued to reside ever since. She has had ten children, four boys and six girls, seven of whom are still living, and settled for the most part within the same neighborhood with herself. Much of the attention necessary to the well-being of the family devolved upon her, and this duty, together with all the other duties of a good wife and an affectionate mother, was well and faithfully performed. When she moved to her present home there were but few settlers in this portion of the county, or indeed in the whole county, and the neighbors were few and frequently at a great distance from each other. But these trying circumstances so far from discouraging her only tended to strengthen her determination of constantly laboring for the good of her family. For about sixty years she has lived upon the same farm, and has seen the heavy forests transformed into smiling fields and the virgin earth made to yield its treasures to the labor of the industrious farmer. Her neighbors, who after a few years became much more numerous, have come as settlers and have passed away to that land from whose bourne no traveler has ever yet returned. Still she lives on, the same kind, hospitable and devoted woman that she was sixty years ago, when she first assumed the duties of the wife and mother. She has been an affectionate mother, a good neighbor, a true friend, and a Samaritan indeed to very many who owe much, almost life itself, to her watchful care and unselfish assistance. For about sixty years she has been an earnest and devoted member of the Baptist Church, and even at her advanced age loses no opportunity of attending upon the means of grace. Mrs. Patterson is one of the best known women in the portion of the county where she resides, and has the esteem and affectionate regard of all the people of that part of the county. Her life has been a very active one and correspondingly useful and happy. She is at this time a little crippled from the effects of a recent fall from a buggy, but her general health appears to be very good and the probabilities are favorable for her surviving for quite a number of years to come. May they be years free from pain, and filled with the sunshine of happy old age. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx