Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Robert Miller PATTON

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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ROBERT MILLER PATTON - was a son of Trestem and Jane (NELSON) PATTON, 
whose record has just been given. He was born in Monroe County, (then) 
Virginia, July 17, 1814, and he married Margaret LEVEL, who was born 
in Irish Corner district, Greenbrier County, June 4, 1822. Their 
marriage was solemnized in this district, November 25, 1840, and 
the record of their children is: Nancy Jane, born November 22, 1841, 
lives near Ronceverte; Mary Susan, June 15, 1843, lives at Gap Mills, 
Monroe County, this State; James M., July 22, 1845, lives in Kansas; 
David Level, April 15, 1847, lives near home; William Nelson, January 
22, 1849, lives in Kansas; Owen Neal, December 1, 1850, died September 
5, 1869; Elizabeth M., May 6, 1853, lives at home; George Perry, 
August 4, 1855, died October 26, 1865; John Porter, November 19, 1857, 
lives at Gap Mills, Monroe County; Robert Hamilton, July 26, 1860, 
died August 27th following; Sarah Rebecca, April 23, 1862, lives in 
Fayette County, this State; Isabel, November 16, 1864, died December 
15th following; and their mother died November 16, 1864. James M. and 
David S. were Confederate soldiers during the war between the States. 
The parents of Margaret LEVEL were James and Nancy (McCLURE) LEVEL, 
Her father was born in Ireland, and died in 1863. Her mother died in 
this county, near Caldwells Station, in 1828. Robert Miller PATTON is 
a prosperous farmer of Irish Corner district, owning 178 acres of 
good farming land on Second creek, soil good Lime and clay, the 
timbered land covered with oak, walnut, hickory, and poplar, the 
acres under cultivation in good yielding condition. He also owns 
80 acres in Kansas, and 157 acres in Calhoun County, West Virginia. 
He may he addressed at Second Creek, 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.