Hello, I am looking for the ancestors or leads on the ancestors on William Patterson and his wife, Margaret Branch. Any info would be appreciated. Barry Descendants of Willam Patterson Generation No. 1 1. WILLAM1 PATTERSON was born 1750 in Virginia, and died July 1816 in Williamson County, Tennessee. He married MARGARET BRANCH 1774 in Virginia. She was born June 24, 1762 in Virginia, and died August 21, 1839 in Gibson or Williamson County, Tennessee. Children of WILLAM PATTERSON and MARGARET BRANCH are: i. ELIZABETH2 PATTERSON, b. Tennessee; m. WILLIAM BREEDEN, August 20, 1818, Tennessee. ii. MARY PATTERSON, b. Tennessee; m. JOHN BARNETT, July 9, 1821, Tennessee. iii. WILLIAM PATTERSON, b. May 27, 1786, Virginia; d. September 24, 1846, Gibson County, Tennessee; m. ELIZABETH MAYFIELD, October 1, 1805, Williamson County, Tennessee; b. Abt. 1786; d. February 1844, Gibson County, Tennessee. iv. JOHN PATTERSON, b. 1787, Virginia; d. Lafayette County, Arkansas; m. NANCY READ, May 7, 1810, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. Lafayette County, Arkansas. v. ROBERT CARSON PATTERSON, b. November 23, 1789, Virginia; d. June 25, 1873, Perry County, Tennessee; m. MALINDA CARSON, February 20, 1815, Williamson County, Tennessee; b. January 28, 1800, Tennessee; d. October 2, 1850, Perry County, Tennessee. vi. JAMES PATTERSON, b. 1794, Virginia; m. POLLY HERRIN, Williamson County, Tennessee. vii. CARSON PATTERSON, b. August 27, 1804, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. March 29, 1874, Gibson County, Tennessee; m. CASSA CARLTON, September 28, 1823, Tennessee; b. October 28, 1806, North Carolina; d. February 25, 1883, Gibson County, Tennessee. viii. THOMAS CARSON PATTERSON, b. December 23, 1806, Williamson County, Tennessee; d. July 19, 1873, Gibson County, Tennessee; m. ELIZABETH WARD, November 5, 1827, Rutherford County, Tennessee; b. November 10, 1811, Rutherford County, Tennessee; d. April 8, 1858. "Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; learn from Northern school books THEIR version of the war; and taught to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects of derision." --Gen. Patrick Cleburne, Confederate States of America Barry Dunagan's Genealogy and Military History http://www.geocities.com/bsdunagan/