Evening Rooters, This is my first post to the list. I should have such luck as I had on the Waddell and Kerr lists: first post; got ancestors and cousins. I have an unknown Patterson who married(maybe married) Elizabeth Findley (Elizabeth: b. abt 1817 in Tennessee, d. aft 1870 in North Carolina). I can only assume that Mr. Patterson was born there also, but maybe just across the line from Blount County in North Carolina. I just don't know. In any case, Mr. Patterson must have either died shortly after marrying Miss Findley, or he just left. But he was married to her long enough to father one son, and one son only, Jerry Monroe Patterson, my gg-grandfather, who married Julie A. Kerr of Blount County, Tennessee, daughter of Maclin Kerr and Lucinda Davis Kerr. Jerry may have been born in either (what is now) Swain County, North Carolina or Northern Macon County (which went to the Tennessee line back then). In abt 1896, Jerry and Julie settled in the Cowee Valley of Macon County, North Carolina. They are buried in the Snow Hill Methodist Church Cemetery just north of Franklin in Macon County. If anyone can identify the Mysterious Mr. Patterson who married (maybe married) Elizabeth Findley, and give some kind of documentation, I will build a shrine, burn insense, and chant, "Finder of the Patterson, Finder of the Patterson..." <G> Many kind regards, Philip Sheppard Beaufort, South Carolina