MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Dr. Thomas J. Patterson
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DR. THOMAS J. PATTERSON'S  birth occurred June 13, 1828, in Marshall
County, Tenn., on the farm where he now resides.  He followed the plow in
his youthful days, and received an academical education.  He began the
study of medicine under Dr. M. H. Scales after attaining his
twenty-first birthday, and after reading about two years entered the
medical department of the University of Louisville, from which he graduated
in 1851.  He entered upon his practice in Maury County, and after two years
moved to Marshall County, where he has since lived.  In 1856 he married
Louisa H. Hardin, born  December 29, 1832 in Maury County, and educated at
Columbia, and eight children blessed their union.  He acted as assistant
surgeon for about eighteen months during the late war, and since that time
has been a Democrat in politics.  He is also a
Mason, and the owner of 418 acres of land, well stocked.  He devotes the
most of his time to farming , but still practices among his old patrons.
His parents, John and Sarah (Wilson) Patterson, were born in the "Palmetto
State."  The father moved to Kentucky when young, and finally to Marshall
County, Tenn., in 1820, where he was married about five years later.  The
mother died in 1830, leaving two children, and the father
wedded Sarah Lavender, who bore him four children, two daughters
living.  The father was an extensive farmer of his day, and is now in his
eighty-fourth year.  Our subject's wife is a daughter of Pleasant and
Tabitha (Gentry) Hardin, born and married in North Carolina.  They moved to
Maury County, Tenn., at an early day, and became the parents of six
children, all girls.  The father died while in the prime of life, and after
his death the mother and her daughters managed the farm.  She died in 1873.

Surnames: Gentry, Hardin, Patterson, Patterson, Scales,
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."