This obit on Walter Patterson was in Billy's obits. Can anyone connect or tell me
more about his father, Samuel?
Shirley
Muncie
Union City Times-Gazette, Wednesday, June 18, 1941
Children mourning death of father.
Walter Patterson and Mrs. Paul Hart, of Union City, are mourning the death of their
father, James Irvin Patterson, 82, resident of Greenville and native of Franklin township,
Darke county, which occurred Monday night at his Greenville home.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. (EST) Thursday at the residence, 328 West
Third street, Greenville. Burial will be in the Greenville cemetery.
Survivors include four sons, and four daughters; Walter and Mrs. Hart, of Union City;
Harry, of Dayton; Charles, of Arcanum; Marion, of Greenville; Mrs. James Royer, of New
Madison; Mrs. Floyd Good and Mrs. Gladys Byers, both of Greenville. There also is a
step-brother, Roy Hill, of Gettysburg, O.
(Miller Funeral Home Records state that he was born July 1, 1859 in Franklin Twp., Darke
Co., the son of Samuel Patterson and Rachel Williams.)