Hopkins Co. TX - T. A. Patrick

From:  June E. Tuck  <jparks@neto.com>

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T. A. Patrick died at his home in the Mount Zion community. Interment was
made in the Mt. Zion cemetery with services conducted by Rev. Humphreys.
Mr. Patrick was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee, February 28, 1834.
When about two years of age his parents moved to Little Valley, Dekalb
County, Alabama, where he grew to manhood, and where, in the spring of
1861, he enlisted in Co. I 10th Alabama Infantry, General Willcox^Òs
Brigade, and saw much fighting with the army of Northern Virginia. He was
wounded in the second day^Òs battle in the memorable seven days fighting
at Williamsburg, near Richmond, Virginia, and was an invalid during the
remainder of the war, remaining nearly all the time in the hospital at
Richmond. Mr. Patrick had been married twice. His first wife died in
1882, and the second wife, to whom no children were born, survive him.
The first union, nine children were born, three of whom are dead. Of
those living, three boys, W. A. lives at Mangum, Oklahoma, and H. A. and
O. B. live in the Mount Zion vicinity. Of the daughters, Mrs. Susan Sharp
lives near Wolfe City, and Mrs. H. E. Partlow, and Mrs. Terah Burns
reside near the old home place. After the war, Mr. Patrick lived four
years in Woodruff County, Arkansas, moving to Texas in 1871, living one
year near Ladonia in Fannin County, three years in Hunt County, and had
lived in Hopkins County nearly forty years. (Cumby Rustler, Fri., Nov. 7,
1913)