Davidson County TN Archives Biographies.....Patterson, Everand Meade 1800 - 1863
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Author: W. W. Clayton

DR. EVERAND MEADE PATTERSON.



  Dr. Everand Meade Patterson was born in Franklin Co., Va., April 19, 1800;

when a boy he went with his parents to Paris, Ky., where he received a

collegiate education at Transylvania University. He graduated at the medical

college at Lexington in 1826, and soon after came to Davidson Co., Tenn., and

commenced the practice of medicine, which he continued for twenty-five years,

accumulating a handsome property.



  In 1850 he went to California, where he remained two years, when he returned,

and from that time lived a retired life on a fine farm in the Eighth District

until the war broke out. Dr. Patterson was a man of nerve and quick perception.

What he did he did with all his might. When the war came he raised a company of

cavalry and went with them into the Confederate army.



  Dr. Patterson was twice married,—first to Margaret Fate, daughter of Joel

Miller, of Jessamine Co., Ky., March 4, 1824. She lived but a short time, and

the doctor married for his second wife Elizabeth Watson White, daughter of

Thomas White, of Williamson Co., Tenn., Nov. 7, 1826. She was born in Halifax

Co., Va. By his second marriage he had eight children, all of whom are dead

except Jonas T. Patterson, who married a Miss McIver, and Annie E., who married

Maj. Robert H. Hill and lives on the old homestead.



  Dr. Patterson was a man of great energy, never considering any obstacle too

great to overcome. He was a warm, true, and devoted friend.



  In politics he was a lifelong Democrat and a personal friend of Gen. Andrew

Jackson. He hated to see the union of the States broken up, but, like many

others, he united his fortunes with his beloved State, and right faithfully did

he serve her until he fell at the battle of Murfreesboro', Tenn., Jan. 3, 1863,

at sixty-three years of age.



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History of Davidson County , Tennessee : with illustrations and biographical

sketches of its prominent men and pioneers

by

W. W. Clayton

Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co. (1880)



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