Husband Robert Patterson 1
Born: 23 Apr 1817 2
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Died: 24 Jul 1889 3
Buried:
Father: Samuel Patterson (1766- ) 4
Mother: Catherine Campbell (1776- ) 4
Marriage: 23 Mar 1853 2
Wife Margret Dorothy Laughlin 2
Born: 22 May 1830 2
Christened:
Died: 9 Aug 1897 2
Buried:
Father: John Laughlin (1802-1845) 2
Mother: Mary Armstrong (1799-1845) 2
Children
1 F Clara Patterson 3
Born: 11 Feb 1854 3
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Died: 10 May 1871 3
Buried:
Spouse: Did Not Marry
2 M Samuel C. Patterson 5 6
Born: 20 May 1856 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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Died:
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Spouse: Eliza Martha Steel ( -Aft 1906) 6 7
Marr: 1 Jan 1884 8
3 F Margret Estella Patterson 3
AKA: Margret Dorothy (Laughlin) Patterson 9
Born: 16 Nov 1869 3 9
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Spouse: William McLaren Moore (1859- ) 10
Marr: 28 Jun 1898 9
General Notes: Husband - Robert Patterson
He was educated in the township and New Alexandria schools. On reaching a suitable age, he learned the carpenter's trade with his brother Samuel, with whom he worked eighteen years, ten of which he was a partner. He was a skilled mechanic and a reliable builder. After his marriage he bought the Rev. John Cannon farm, and there was his home for thirty-five years. He was a successful farmer, and from a low state of cultivation he brought it up to the highest. Fruit trees were planted and improvements made that soon made it a model farm. He was much interested in educational matters, was a good reader and thinker, and able to express himself well in speech. He was a member of the Covenanter church, of which he was a ruling elder, an office which he filled to the satisfaction of those over whom he had rule. He was an earnest Christian man, filled with the spirit of God and always ready to forward every good cause. He worked with the Bible Society of Pennsylvania, and the local societies. He was a strong temperance man, even from early boyhood, when he refused to carry the jug of home-made whisky to the harvest field, believing it to be wrong. He always labored for the overthrow of the demon rum, and in that day it took courage to stand against the custom of moderate drinking. He was greatly opposed to human slavery, and when the first gun at Sumter was fired he was not surprised. He believed in and practiced all the doctrines of the Covenanter church and was loyal to all her teachings. He remained on the farm until March 1, 1884, when he removed to New Alexandria, where he bought a fine house, in which he resided until his death.
General Notes: Wife - Margret Dorothy Laughlin
After the deaths of her parents, her brother, Eliphet, at once assumed the support of the siblings and Margret, aged fifteen years, cared for the home and younger children. By their united efforts the family was kept together, the little ones educated and cared for, until her marriage with Robert Patterson.