Jacki, I would like to know more about your Patterson family. My husband's grandfather was a Patterson. We have his line back to earlier Pattersons in NC, then SC, and before that "The Colonies". His grandfather was John Calvin Patterson, born in TX, 1879, then John Withrow Patterson, born in NC, 1839, then Robert Patterson, born NC, abt 1812, James Patterson, 1784, York Co., SC, Robert, 1755, "The Colonies" Sincerely, Dortha McElroy Greenlee