Coryell Co. TX - J. Terrell Patterson

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                            J. TERRELL PATTERSON
                                      
  Terrell Patterson was born in Coryell County on August 9, 1889 at his father,
  John Wesley Pattersons farm home at the foot of Hard Bargain Mountain on the
  old Pidcoke Road. His mother was Lucy Minerva Wallace; Lucy married John
  September 12, 1888 after his first wife, Savannah Cox, died leaving two young
  sons, Ola and Andy. Lucy lived with her parents, Nancy Cogburn(Cockburn) and
  Miles Wallace on an adjacent farm, and sparks flew when John and Lucy were
  the main characters in a play put on by Union Church. Terrells childhood and
  early manhood were spent on the family farm. He attended Union Public School
  in the Union Valley community. One of his teachers was Abbie Williamson. On
  the School Board were his father, J. M. Calhoun, and John Rose. In addition
  to Ola who married Bertha Rainey and Andy who married Lovie Berry, his
  younger siblings were Nora, who married John W. Hagan; Boone, who married
  Etta Baize; Floyd, who married Georgia Jones, Dollie, who married Richard
  Sexton, and Sam, who married Dora Schaub. In his twenties, Terrells country
  called him to serve in World War I (which was called "The Great War") on
  September 19, 1917 at Gatesville. He served in the 36th Division which was
  organized during August and September of 1917 from National Guard
  organizations of Texas and Oklahoma and 8,500 drafted men. He and his
  brother, Boone, went to Camp Bowie in San Antonio on a special train with
  Otis Whitt, Henry Smith, Herman Lockhart, Pete Padgett and Vester Ballard,
  and other inductees from Coryell County. Terrell, Vester, Pete, and Herman
  were in the same squad in Company M, 143rd Infantry, 36th Division. The
  Coryell boys served in the American Expeditionary Force in France (Meuse and
  Argonne). They were on the front at the Rhine River for thirty-six days, had
  gone back to get food and clothes when the Armistice was signed. On returning
  with his Honorable Discharge on June 14, 1919, he traveled to Ranger, Texas
  where he worked in the new oil field. He had been reintroduced to Ethel
  Douglas when she came to Coryell County to teach at Union(1916) and
  King(1917) Schools, and boarded in the Patterson home. During Terrell's war
  duty, he and Ethel corresponded regularly. Terrell and she had both attended
  Union School in 1905; however, Ethels parents, Betty Brandon and Richard
  Douglass, moved to Inez where Dick was ranch foreman and Betty cooked for the
  Brown & Dodd Ranch. On May 7, 1920 Terrell married his sweetheart, Ethel.
  They farmed in Coryell County until 1927 when Terrell accepted a carpenters
  job with Imperial Sugar Company in Sugar Land where several of Ethels family
  lived. There, they had two daughters; Betty Virginia was born and died in
  1928, and Neva Lou was born in 1930. Terrell died on March 5, 1937 and Ethel
  passed away December 11, 1952. They and Betty are buried in Union Valley
  Cemetery in Coryell County. Ethel and Neva Lou moved to Houston after
  Terrells death. After graduating from Milby High School, Neva worked in an
  insurance office where she met Clayton McClain, marrying him December 17,
  1948. Their three children are: Kathie, married to Floyd Wayne Mayberry;
  Bruce, married to Vickie Ann McCoy; Mark, married to Lori Angela DiPanni.
  Terrell would have enjoyed his great-grandchildren, Stacy, Kate, Joshua,
  Jenna, and Sarah! By Daughter, Neva Lou Patterson McClain 9/24/2000

           copyrighted by Neva McClain and Bobbie Ross Sept.2000