This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Patterson - Bowman - Nipper - Delcour Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jMB.2ACE/897.1 Message Board Post: My hope is to connect with a distant cousin and learn about my Patterson lineage. Since my previous querie I have made a few findings and corrections - I still believe there is a Wright County connection!! By the Federal Census of 1880, James D. and Nancy E. Patterson were living in Laclede, Missouri and the household was as follows: James D. and Nancy E., children were Theresa B. (12), Edgar W. (10), Oscar F. (9), Millard R. (5) and Cordelia E. (1). Also listed in their household were servants: Mary Bridges, age 18; James Bohanan, age 20; John Soward, age 18; Warren Pernell, age 24; and Frank Williams, age 18. My grandfather, Elza Solon, was born in 1881, one year after this census. Elza S. Patterson & Oma E. Nipper (born June 20th 1886 in Missouri) marry on 4 Oct 1903 - Laclede Co. Marriages - Book H.....Page 140 Elza and Oma had three sons. The oldest was Marion and twins James "Jim" Patterson and Richard "Dick" Patterson. Oma died 18 Nov 1908 and is buried in Porter Cemetery. Her three sons died later and are also buried there in the same row. Later Elza (age 29) marries Dora Leola Delcour Crisp (age 27). Marriage License dated August 18, 1911 to Elza Solon Patterson of Pine Crook, Missouri and Dora Crisp of Manes, Missouri issued Laclede County, Missouri. If anyone has any additional information about my Patterson Connection it would be greatly appreciated. Thank You Larry Collier