Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Edwin Franklin PATTON

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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EDWIN FRANKLIN PATTON - owns 330 acres of good farming land on the 
waters of Second creek, and 500 acres, well watered and well timbered, 
three and one-half miles from Ronceverte, all excellent grazing land. 
His father was one of the early settlers of Greenbrier County, having 
come from Ireland directly to this locality of 1780, and was prominent 
in the affairs of the pioneer settlers here. Threstrem PATTON, born in 
Ireland in 1764, and Jane (NELSON) PATTON, born in Monroe County, 
March 26, 1826. In Irish Corner, October 13, 1853, he married Rebecca 
Margaret BURDETT ,and they had one son, whom they named Samuel Rutherford, 
who was born July 31, 1854; they also have an adopted daughter and son: 
Mollie Warwick BURDETTE, born January 10, 1861, and Edwin F. BURDETTE, 
born March 3, 1864. John and Lydia (CURRY) BURDETTE were her parents, 
the former born in Monroe County, May 29, 1795. and the latter born 
September 30, 1796. Her father died May 10, 1882, and her mother is 
still living on their homestead on Second creek. The father of Mr. 
PATTON died July 17, 1847, in Monroe County, and his mother died 
March 20, 1862, at Irish Corner. In Lewisburg, Greenbrier County. 
on New Years Day, 1879, Samuel R. PATTON married Nannie Warwick FORD, 
who was born September 30, 1855. They have two children: Edith Garnett, 
born January 16, 1880, and Edwin Jefferson, born November 12, 1882. 
During the civil war. Edwin F. PATTON was a member of Company A, 22d 
Virginia Cavalry, Confederate service. His post office address is 
Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.