Hello Jeanne, I'm fairly certain that there are no families with the Patterson name remaining in that area. At least not from this line. There were two sons, one of whom never married or had children to pass the name on to, and the other relocated further west. The Pettersons must be another family entirely. I also so no other Pattersons or Pettersons in the cemetery at Big Flats when I visited over Thanksgiving, so I suspect that this was a family that ended up in the area with no additional contacts; ultimately making it even harder to track them down. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009