Confederate Veteran Mag., dated 1932. A.A.NATES, outstanding citizen of Prosperity, South Carolina., died there at the home of his daughter, MRS. B.T. YOUNG, on May 27, aged 90 years. Comrade NATES enlisted in the Confederate Army in Company A, 13th South Carolina Regiment, in August, 1861 and served during the remainder of the war. His boast was that he had never missed a roll call, fought in every battle in which his company was engaged and was never wounded. He was with GENERAL LEE at Appomattox. Comrade NATES was a member of JAMES D. NANCE Camp, U.C.V., of Newberry County and at its meeting on Memorial Day, May 10, he was elected Adjutant, dying 17 days later. He was a member of the Grace Lutheran church. His wife and four children preceded him to the grave. Surviving are two daughters, four grandchildren, and one great grandson. [ R.Y. LEAVELL, Newberry, S.C.] +++ EMANUEL ARTHUR PATTERSON, whose death occurred at his home at King's Mountain, on April 11, at the age of 87 , was the only son of ARTHUR HARRISON and SARAH HAMBRIGHT PATTERSON, and he was born on the old PATTERSON home place four miles from the Kings Mountain battleground on May 24, 1844. His parents died when he was an infant and he was reared in the family of CHRIS EAKER, a relative. In Sept., 1868, he was married to MISS BARBARA NANCY ANN SHUFORD, of Lincoln County, N.C. and he is survived by four sons and three daughters. Burial was in the Mountain Rest Cemetery at Kings Mountain. At the age of 18, EMANUEL PATTERSON enlisted in Company C, 57th N.C. Regiment, HOKE'S Brigade, C.S.A., and served throughout the war for Southern independence. He was in many battles and was captured twice but was never wounded. Since the war his life had benn spent in or near Kings Mountain and was better posted of the Revolution than anyone else. Throughout his active life, he frequently acted as guide over the battlefield, so he was considered an authority on it. +++ " Blessed are the people who have a noble history and read it".... Free Post- nancie