Obituary of Judge N. Reid Patterson

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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003
From: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000008
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Judge N. Reid Patterson 
Bath County News-Outlook Thursday, August 18, 1938 
Bullet Wound Fatal To Judge N. R. Patterson 
Was A Former Resident Of Owingsville 
   Judge N. Reid Patterson, 60 years old, died at a Pineville, Ky., 
hospital Sunday, August 14, after lingering for a week from a bullet 
wound, said to have been self inflicted on the night of Sunday, August 7, 
at his Pineville home. 
   Judge Patterson, a member of the defense council in the recent Harlan 
anti labor conspiracy trial, had recently returned to his Pineville home 
following conclusion of the case at Harlan.  His physician, Dr. Charles 
B. Stacey, said that Judge Patterson called him on the phone the night 
of August 7 and told him he had shot himself. 
   Judge Patterson was reared in Owingsville by his grandparents, the 
late Mr. and Mrs. William C. Allen.  He was a son of Billy and Nettie 
Allen Patterson and was born in Mt. Sterling.  Following the footsteps 
of his father, a brilliant Kentucky lawyer, Judge Patterson began the 
practice of law in Owingsville when quite a young man and was at one 
time judge of the Owingsville police court. 
   He moved to Pineville in August, 1906, and has since made his home 
there   Besides his wife, Mrs. Virgie Logan Patterson, he is survived 
by a son, Logan E. Patterson, Pineville attorney; a daughter, Mrs. Roy 
Adkins, St. Petersburg, Fla., Two sons by a former marriage, Allen 
Patterson and Alex Patterson Chiles, Mt. Sterling; one brother Ford 
Patterson of Montgomery county, and a sister, Mrs. J. H. McCarthy, 
Los Angeles, Calif.