This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: James Donald Patterson 1837 - 1910 Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jMB.2ACE/897 Message Board Post: Searching for ancestors and history of James Donald Patterson (born 19 Aug 1837 - died 22 Nov 1910) and his son Elza Solon Patterson (born 13 Mar 1881 - died 23 Apr 1937). James and his wife Nancy Emaline Bowman (born 9 May 1840 - died 28 Nov 1910) were both residents of Missouri and are both buried In Coweta, Oklahoma. They were stricken with a fever while in Oklahoma and died within a week of each other. Family information says Elza and his wife were with James and Nancy at the time. Elza's wife asked to be taken back to Missouri and either died entoute or shortly after. In comparing dates it is probable she was his second wife as records of another researcher indicate a marriage to Oma Nipper who died much earlier. Elza had three known sons, who I personally visited as a young boy. The eldest was Marion and twins Jim and Dick. I have no records of them. As best I remember Marion lived in Lebanon and Jim & Dick lived together just outside the back gate of Ft. Leonardwood, near Falcon, Missouri. Elza married Dora Leola Delcour, my grandparents, and moved to Oklahoma in 1911. Dora was known as "Granny Pat" and many researchers have recorded her name as Dora Valentine Delcour in error. Her given name was Dora Leola Delcour, b Feb 14, 1883, d Aug 9, 1965. Granny Pat lived with my family and helped raise me until her death in 1965 when I was fifteen. I have headstone photo's of James & Nancy, Elza & Dora and many of their decendants in Oklahoma. Hopefully this spring I will be traveling to the Lebanon area to gather information first hand. Until then I am searching for as much as possible online, and through the help of others, to assure my efforts around Laclede County are as productive as possible. Thank you in advance for any information about my family. Larry Collier