This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Patterson, Medlin, Mount, Hight Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UiB.2ACI/1263.2 Message Board Post: Patricia, Perry Patterson that is living with Richard Mount in 1870 was also living with him in 1860. Perry is my gggrandfather. Searching his parentage is very frustrating as there does not seem to be any clues. I learned from someone on genforum that he was named in the will of Lewis Patterson but I have not located the contents of that will on the internet. A distant cousin of mine (whom I found through internet message board) said there was a family story that he had come from Ireland in the 1850's but on all the census records his birth place is given as TN. Brent Mount told me that he might be the son of Ozro Patterson son of William Patterson and Louella Hight. I cannot find ANYTHING on an Ozro Patterson. I do know that Perry traveled through Missouri and into Arkansas where family stories say his oldest son Wesley Alexander was married to Sarah Brock in Pea Ridge. Both families then moved on to Collins and Hopkins counties in Texas. Coincidentally (or maybe not so coincidentally) my grandfather Perry Patterson, grandson of Perry settled in McDonald County Missouri which is where I understand your William Carroll Patterson moved when he left Tennessee. My grandfather used to state that ten or eleven families of Pattersons moved from Wilson Co. into southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas but Perry moved on to Texas. I feel very certain that my Perry is related to your William Carroll as my grandfather said that his father, Wesley Alexander Patterson was double cousin to Charlie Patterson and Della Mae Patterson. I think Charlie is the son of Sampson Uriah and Della is the daughter of William Martin, both sons of William Carroll. Perry married Amanda Medlin who was the daughter of Russell Medlin and Sara Fary Patterson. I think she (Amanda) is a sister to Martha Medlin who married William Sneed. Sallie Sneed daughter of Martha and William married Sampson Uriah son of your William Carroll. Perry and Amanda (Mandy) had the following children: Wesley Alexander b. 1872 Wilson Co., TN, Minnie Pearl b. 1874 Wilson Co., Robert Allen b. 1877 Wilson Co.,? , Dalton L. b. 1880 TN, Oscar Bates b. 1880 TN and Ellise (Elsie) Celeste b. 1888 Denton Co., TX. If any of this sounds like it fits into your Patterson line, please let me know as I am stumped. Beth Roller e-mail [email protected]