Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of PRESTON B. PATTON This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 335 PRESTON B. PATTON. Thomas B. Patton was born Dccember I, 1822; died December 21, 1863. He was a son of Tristram and Jane Nelson Patton, of Monroe. December 30, 1845, he married Eliza Alderson, horn December 9, 1819; died June 21, 1901, daughter of Captain Jack and Frances Alderson, of "Western View," now the suburbs of Alderson. To them were born five sons: John William, born October 21, 1847; Granville M., born September 5, 1849; Preston B., born December 18, 1852; Alderson N., born December 29, 1854, and Walter W., born August 5, 1897. Alderson died while attending a boys' school in Iowa, August 9, 1884. Mr. Patton owned and operated the mill at Palestine until his death. John William married Elizabeth Huffman, who lived only a short time. His second wife was Eliza Wait, daughter of Dr. Anderson Wait, of Palestine. To this union were born five children: Grace, Nettie, Sadie, Fred and Cecil. Granville married a Caraway and moved to Missouri. Preston B. married Alice Alderson, daughter of Franklin Bond Alderson, October, 1887. Their children are Powell, Owen, Margaret, Thomas (dead) and William. Mr. Patton taught school in the county, and for many years has been an architect and carpenter. He resides on part of his grandfather Alderson's plantation, east of the old fair grounds and near the river.