OBIT: Stephen B. PATTERSON, 1905, Franklin Township, Huntingdon County, PA

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DIED IN THE WOODS
Stephen B. Patterson, an Aged Veteran of the Civil War
 
  On Tuesday morning, July 18, Stephen B. Patterson, an aged Civil War 
veteran, left his home at the Dorsey Ore Banks, five miles from this 
place, to walk to Tyrone, where he expected to get his pension voucher 
and afterward spend a few days with his son, John I. Patterson.  The 
latter did not know he had started, and the friends at home thought he 
had reached here.  Friday, however, it was learned that the aged man 
was missing and he had never come to Tyrone. A search was at once 
instigated with the result that his dead body was found shortly after 
midnight the next morning about a half-mile from his home along a field 
of David Waite's farm.  He was found in a kneeling posture. There was 
no evidence of a struggle and it is presumed that he died naturally and 
suddenly, possibly from paralysis.  He had likely been dead since soon 
after he started from his home Tuesday morning.  The remains were 
interred in Burkett's graveyard at Warriors Mark Saturday afternoon.  
The deceased was aged 72 years.  He was born at Greenwood Furnace, near 
Petersburg, but since the war, he had resided at the Dorsey Ore Banks 
where he was employed when the works were in operation.  He was of the 
Methodist faith.  His wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Jane Johnston, 
died January 18, 1903.  Three sons and one daughter survive him.  These 
are John I. Patterson, of Tyrone; Stephen J. Patterson and Mrs. Thomas 
Smith, of Dorsey Ore Banks; and David B. Patterson, of Juniata.  One 
brother, Nicholas Patterson, of Altoona, also survives him.  Mr. 
Patterson had a long and honorable record as a soldier for his country 
in the Civil War.  He enlisted in 1861 and continued in the service 
until the close of the war in 1865.  He was a member of M company, 
Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry.

Tyrone Herald, Tyrone, Pa., July 27, 1905, page 1