Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Patterson, Mrs. N. C., 1946
Thursday, August 3, 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                    Mrs. N. C. Patterson Dies in Hospital Monday, Jan. 14

  Mrs. Elizabeth Kountz Patterson, wife of the late N. C. Patterson, died Monday
January 14, in a San Antonio hospital following a long illness.  Funeral services
were held in the Junciton Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. Vernon Shaw,
pastor of the Kerrville Baptist Church, officiating.  Interment was made in the
Junctin cemetery by the side of her husband who died February 18, 1944.
  The following were active pallbearers:
  L. R. Hodges, E. V. Stewart, Omer Wright, A. W. Browning, Ramsey Randolph, and
K. G. Durst.
  Mrs. Patterson was born in Virginia on July 4, 1857, but moved with her family
to Kansas when a small child.  Later the Kountz family moved to Kimble county,
before it was organized and the savage Indians visited the county frequently. 
A brother, Isaac, was killed by the Comanche Indians on Christmas, 1876.
  She was married to N. C. Patterson December 25, 1878, and to this union were born
nine children--eight sons and one daughter.  Three sons, Edgar, Lynn, and Olney,
preceded her in death.  The surviving children are Frank, Floyd, Harry and Earl 
of Junction, Cummings of Chicago, and Mrs. John Harrison of Midland.  She is also
survived by 11 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren and many other relataives.
  During pioneer days, Mrs. Patterson suffered many frontier hardships.  The 
depredations of Indians were a constant menace to the early settlers.  There were no
roads, no railroads, and none of the modern conveniences that her posterity enjoys.
She bore all these hardships with courage and helped to pave the way for the comforts
the people now enjoy.
  Mrs. Patterson became a christian early in life and was a faithful member of the
Baptist church as long as she was able to attend services.
  In her homegoing the community has lost one of its best loved citizens.  She was
always kind, gentle and loving.  Everybody who knew her loved her.
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