Washington County PA Archives Obituaries.....Patterson, James January 4, 1869

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United Presbyterian Church Record

Died, Jan. 4th, 1869, in the 92d year of his age, JAMES PATTERSON, a ruling
elder in the U.P. congregation of North Buffalo, and the oldest ruling elder in
Chartiers Presbytery, and may be in the Church.

Father Patterson was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1777.  He emigrated with
his father and family to this county in 1791.  In 1810 her married and settled
in Hopewell tp., Washington Co., Pa., on the farm upon which he died.  He early
united with the congregation of N. B. of which he was in 1811 chosen a ruling
elder, the duties of which he discharged with great ability and acceptance until
within a few years of the termination of a long and well spent life.  As a
member of civil society he was active, useful, and a correct business man.  As a
member of church and church courts he was ever attentive and faithful, warmly
attached to her principals and order, as set forth in her standards, and was
ever willing and creditably able to defend them when assailed.  As an
office-bearer in the house of his God he was able and zealous, and as a
counselor wise and judicious.  As a father and husband-man "he looked well to
the ways of his household, eating not the bread of idleness; hence his children
rise up and call him blessed."  He was the father of eleven children, nine of
whom survive him, and all members of the U.P. Church.  His grandchildren number
sixty-five, fifty-one of whom are living, and his great-grandchildren forty-one,
thirty-five yet living.  "Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that
delighteth greatly in his commandments.  His seed shall be mighty upon the
earth, the generation of the upright shall be blessed."

The following action was taken by the Session of N.B.:

Whereas, the Master has called to his reward the last of the pioneer members of
this Session; therefore,

Resolved, That in looking back through the years of our acquaintance with our
deceased, venerated father Patterson, we see and remember only a life largely
dedicated to the cause of his Master, energies devoted to the church's peace and
prosperity, and a kindly interest in the welfare of all the brethren.

Resolved, That i this dispensation we are again admonished to work while the
merciful day of our visitation lasts--admonished to the greater diligence,
earnestness and faithfulness in the work to which we are called, that we, too,
"when we shall have put off mortality, may put on immortality, eternal life."

Resolved, That a minute of the foregoing be made upon our church record and
published in the United Presbyterian.

By order of Session.     CLERK.