David Pattison and Hannah McClure

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Husband David Pattison ¹

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            AKA: David Patterson 1
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         Father: Alexander Pattison (Abt 1802-1874) 1
         Mother: Jeanette Muir (Abt 1811-1856) 1 3

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       Marriage: 4 Jul 1864 1

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Wife Hannah McClure ¹

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           Born: 23 Feb 1842 - Clarks Mills, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: John McClure (Abt 1792-1864) 1 4 5
         Mother: Ruth Axtell (1808-1883) 6

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Children

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1 F Loretta Pattison ³

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         Spouse: C. L. Condit (      -      ) 3

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2 M Josiah A. Pattison ²

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3 M Adolphus Pattison ³

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         Spouse: Myrtle Collins (      -      ) 3

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4 F Jeanette Pattison ³

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            AKA: Jeanette Patterson 1
           Born: 20 Sep 1869 1
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         Spouse: Watson C. Rood (1849-      ) 7
           Marr: 29 Jun 1898 1

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General Notes: Husband - David Pattison

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He obtained a fair education in the district schools and then devoted himself exclusively to farming until August 19, 1861, when he enlisted for three years in Company F, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. On account of illness contracted while in service, however, he was discharged for disability February 7, 1863. He then located at Hadley, Mercer County, PA, in which he erected the first brick house of material which he himself manufactured. In 1868, when the Jamestown and Franklin Railroad first placed the town in railway communication, he was appointed the pioneer agent, and, while still performing the duties of that position, also became the first postmaster of Hadley. Before the formal establishment of the government office he had provided residents with mail facilities by keeping a small locked box at the railway station, in which they deposited their letters with the utmost confidence that their communications would safely reach their destinations, without placing the honest and popular agent under bonds of any kind. Later, the government established a regular office and Mr. Pattison held it many years until his death. Besides the railroad agency and the postmastership, Mr. Pattison held numerous offices of trust connected with the township. He was ever a stanch Republican; an earnest member of the Sheakleyville G. A. R. Post, and a leader in the religious work and the charities of the United Presbyterian Church. [HMC 1909, 980]

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General Notes: Wife - Hannah McClure

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She was widely known as postmistress of Hadley, Mercer County, PA, and for her many years of useful and honorable labors outside of the government service. She had many quaint stories of the crude way in which it was necessary to conduct Uncle Sam's business in the early days, farmers often coming to the office without cash, but in hot haste for letter postage, and exchanging their produce for stamps-three eggs for a postage stamp was about the usual basis of exchange.

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 979.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 979, 980.

3 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 980.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1126, 840.

5 —, Book of Biographies, Lawrence County, PA (Buffalo, NY: Biographical Publishing Company, 1897), Pg 611.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1108.

7 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 977, 980.