This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Joseph Patton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/pAB.2ACI/2368.145.3219.1 Message Board Post: Kathryn the information you provided came from the Patton book and is incorrect. Joseph Patton that married Rhoda and Lydia was not the son of David Patton and Nancy Lawhorn Banks. He was the son Of Nancy Patton. Born out of wedlock he took the Patton Name. His mother Nancy was married to Squire Lawson and in 1900 Census Nancy Lawson his Mother is living in his Household. He was a witness on both his siblings marriage records. He had a sister named Frances who was also born out of wedlock and used the surname Patton and osborne. Joseph's brother Greenville Lawson was Nancy's only child that wasn't born out of wedlock. In no records does this Joseph have apperson as his middle name. He is in many records with his siblings and his mother Nancy Patton Lawson. You can find his middle name as allen in some records.