This is my ggg grandfather, Hezekiah Elgin Pattrick (Im so happy the newspaper spelled the surname correctly!). As the article states, he lead a long and busy life. There are a few errors in the article that I wanted to point out. Hez was born on the date stated in the obit but he was born in Fayette Co., KY (not Lafayette County). His parents did indeed travel from KY to MO in the year after Hez's birth. His parents were Robert Pattrick (1794-1866) and Dorcas Owen (1802-1878). The article got the date of death wrong for Robert Pattrick. He died in 1866 and not 1873. The story of Hez going to California and finding gold has been in our family for a long time. Hez married Mary Elizabeth Dawkins (dau of William Dawkins and Rose Ann Showard) in 1852 (cant find a record for this). The article states that Hez and his wife had eleven children. Unfortunately I have only been able to identify 7 children. I have been handicapped by the fact that the family does not appear in the 1860 census for Randolph Co., MO (I have been over every inch of it). The article incorrectly identifies Mary E. Dawkins Pattrick as dying in 1884. She actually died in 1893 and in fact the Higbee News ran her obit. Hez came from a family of nine children. The surviving sister mentioned in the obit must be Sarah Alice Pattrick b. Dec 22, 1841 in Missouri. I can olny identify 17 grandchildren for Hez. Guess I have more digging to do. If anyone would like more information on this family, please let me know. I am always willing to share. Carole Friday, 28 Feb 1919, Vol 32. No 45--H. E. PATTRICK DEAD--Hezekiah E. Pattrick, one of this community's oldest and most highly respected citizens, whose serious illness was noted in our last issue, passed peacefully into the Great Beyond at 6 o' clock Saturday evening, February 22, 1919, at the home of his son, L. T. Pattrick, northwest of town. Mr. Pattrick, who was in his 90th year, and who was strong and vigorous up to a few years ago, but who began failing very perceptibly about a year ago, was compelled to take to his bed two weeks ago, though he did not have an ache nor a pain. He grew gradually weaker from day to day, dying at the hour stated, dropping into the sleep that knows no awakening without even a sigh.  As his long and useful life had been full of peace and quietness it was fitting that he should lay down his burden of years as "one who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams." Mr. Pattrick was the son of Robert and Dorcas Pattrick, and was born in Lafayette county, KY., on October 12, 1829, coming with his parents to Missouri in 1830.