TarrantĘCo., TX - Obituary - Dr. E.G. Patton ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: June E. Tuck USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** From the files of June Tuck PATTON, Dr. E. G. - Age 77 years, for many years a citizen of Dallas, died at his home at Cockrell Hill station on the Fort Worth inter urban, from a stroke he had last December. He came to Dallas from Sulphur Springs. He was born in Troup County, Georgia, in 1838. His father was a Presbyterian preacher. When a lad of 16, he came to Texas and made his home with his brother, Rev. J. C. G. R. Patton, at Linden, Texas, where he studied medicine under Dr. Phillips and afterward under Dr. Clopton of Douglasville; worked in a drug store in Jefferson. With the assistance of his brother, J. C. G. R. Patton, he attended the University of Louisiana, graduating in 1858. He began practice of medicine in Hopkins County, Texas, and remained in the general practice for 18 years, afterward establishing a drug store at Sulphur Springs where he accumulated considerable property. He was an army surgeon during the entire time of the Civil War. In 1888 he came to Dallas where he established the Patton-Worsham Drug Co., leading wholesale drug house. He established the Patton's Institute in Oak Cliff, a school for boys and girls. He was married in Hopkins County to Miss Texana Boyd who was born and reared in that county and who died in 1901 in Dallas county. He never had children. Funeral services will be held at his home at Cockrell Hill; burial beside his wife in Oak Cliff cemetery. (S.S. Gazette, Fri., Nov. 19, 1915)