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Patton Cemetery Listing--Cannon County, TN

Location: Bradyville, Cannon County, TN

Recorded by Betty Martindale   [email protected]  and Ann McGinn Huddart  [email protected] .   Additional information on the individuals was also provided by Ann McGinn Huddart, reference: FN:WP50\A:PATTNCEM.LST...Disk MFH-1-McGinn-McCorkle Book--Also on Disk R698 Ring Family History.  This cemetery list was edited and revised by Betty Martindale, August 2000.

Note: See conditions for use at end of listing.

 

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Patton Cemetery--numeric listing

 

# SURNAME FIRST/MIDDLE NAMES BORN DIED AGE
           
001 BRANDON Charlie J. 11/21/1887 4/13/1894  
Epitaph: The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.  Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Other Info from tombstone: Son of Samuel Y. BRANDON and Betsy Patton BRANDON.
002 BRANDON Samuel Y. 6/18/1853 2/23/1897  
Epitaph: Sleep in Jesus, blessed sleep from which none ever wake or weep.  Thy will be done Lord, Thy will be done.
Other Info from tombstone: Son of D. C. BRANDON and his wife, E. M. PATTON.
Other Info: E. M. PATTON may be Elizabeth Marie PATTON, born 1821, who is listed in Ring Family History.
003 (BRANDON) (Mary J.) 8/7/1846 3/11/1882  
Epitaph: A loving wife, a mother dear, a faithful friend is buried here.
Other Info: (Mary J. BRANDON's name was lost off the tombstone when it was broken, but it was repaired by Bill GREENE and Clyde THOMAS when they restored the cemetery, and it is clear that it says "wife of H. A. IRVIN" as well as the dates of birth and death.)
Other Info: Mary J. BRANDON, who was the daughter of David BRANDON and E. M. PATTON, married H. A. IRVIN on 2/10/1868.
004 JERNIGAN Nancy E. 1819 1912  
005 MCCORKLE Harriet E. 6/4/1796 6/28/1875  
Epitaph: Thy Memory shall ever be a guiding star to heaven.
Other Info from tombstone: Relict of Amzi MCGINN
Other Info: Harriet Evalina MCCORKLE, relict [widow] of Amzi MCGINN, was the fifth daughter and youngest child of Presbyterian minister, the Reverend Dr. Samuel Eusebius MCCORKLE and his wife, Margaret Gillespie of Salisbury, North Carolina.  In September 1823, Harriet Evalina MCCORKLE married Amzi MCGINN in North Carolina.  They had eight children, six of whom survived.  Following the death of Amzi MCGINN in 1847, Harriet moved with five of her children to a family farm in Dyer County, Tennessee.  She and her son came to live with her daughter Margaret and son-in-law Jasper PATTON in Cannon County in 1852.  Harriet and her son, William R. "Billy" MCGINN lived with the PATTONs for the remainder of their lives.   Harriet died in 1875 at the age of 79.
006 PATTON Margaret Carolina McGinn 4/21/1828 7/1/1908  
Jasper Newton 8/22/1826 8/11/1906  
Epitaph for Margaret Carolina: A wife devoted, A mother affectionate, A friend ever kind and true.
Other Info from tombstone for Margaret: Wife of J. N. PATTON
Epitaph for Jasper Newton: Beloved father, farewell.   Not on this perishing stone, but in the book of life and in the hearts of thy afflicted friends, is thy worth recorded.
Other Info for Margaret: Margaret Carolina MCGINN, named after her maternal grandmother, was the fourth child of Harriet and Amzi MCGINN.  She was 20 when her widowed mother brought the family into Tennessee.  She soon married the nephew of her Uncle John E. PATTON and settled into Bradyville where the PATTON family had held land grants since the 1820's.  Margaret McGinn PATTON saw her family through several tragedies.  Her young daughter, Adelaide Elizabeth PATTON, caught her right arm in a cotton gin and it was amputated.  "Addie" suffered pain from this injury most  of her life.   Addie and her husband, J. P. CURLEE, moved to Bradyville when her aging parents needed care.
Other Info for Jasper: Jasper N. PATTON is described in the Oath of Allegiance of May, 1865 at 6 feet tall with dark hair and complexion and grey eyes.  Miss Bertha KNOX, a lifelong resident of Cannon County, was 94 when interviewed by Rausie Patton COE.  Miss KNOX described Jasper PATTON as "a tall, fine-looking man that took a big hand in the Thyatira Presbyterian Church at Bradyville.   He was well thought of in the community."  Jasper PATTON was not only a farmer, he was also a cabinet maker.  The PATTON farmhouse was situated across the road from the house on 5815 Bradyville Road built by Dr. ADAMS in the 1920's.
     When Jasper returned from his Confederate service, his Oath of Allegiance was questioned.  He appealed to President Andrew JOHNSON, former Gov. of Tennessee, and was pardoned by the President.  He lived to be nearly 80 years old, cared for in his later life by his daughter, Adelaide "Addie" PATTON, and her husband, Dr. J. P. CURLEE.
007 MCGINN William R. 7/8/1837 10/1/1902  
Epitaph: Here lies a brave confederate soldier and an honest man.
Other Info: William Robert "Billy" MCGINN is one of the Confederate veterans buried in the Patton Cemetery.  A letter dated May 1861 from his brother, Reverend John B. MCGINN, to his mother tries to reassure her that Billy will be all right as a volunteer at CSA Camp despite his poor health.  Billy joined his comrades from Cannon County and was captured at Fort Donelson.  He was exchanged in September 1862 and immediately re-enlisted.  He served with the 18th Tennessee Infantry, slogging through battle after battle until he was captured near Marietta, Georgia, in April, 1964.  He spent a year of terrible treatment at Camp Douglas in Illinois until his release in May 1865.  Billy was a member of the PATTON household from his return until his death in 1902.  He worked as a clerk most of his life.  He never married.
008 PATTON John McGinn, Dr. 1/28/1859 2/1/1892 33y 3d
Epitaph: Universally respected and loved in life.  He died at peace with all mankind, with the glorious hope of the rest that remaineth for people of God.
Other Info from tombstone: Son of J. N. PATTON and Margaret MCGINN.
Other Info for John: He was a graduate of University of Nashville Medical School in 1887.  In 1979, Miss Bertha KNOX, a lifelong resident of Cannon County, was interviewed by Rausie Patton COE.  At the time Miss KNOX was 94 years of age.  Miss KNOX recalled that Dr. PATTON was working on the road when he was hit in the leg, which had to be amputated.  Dr. PATTON continued to practice medicine on horseback with his instruments and medicine in his saddlebags and his crutch under his arm.  He left a 24 year old widow, Ada Moore PATTON, and their boys age 2 and 4.   Eventually they moved to Texas.
009 PATTON John O. 1811 1892  
010 PATTON William Decatur 7/13/1861 7/18/1908  
Epitaph: An honest man is the noblest work of God.
Other Info: William Decatur "Will" PATTON lived in the Patton Household his entire life.  He never married.  In his book, The Ring Family History, Ralph Ring relates: "In the 1900 Census he [Will] was listed as a farmer.  He also taught school and for a time was a partner with B. A. Ring in a store at Winchester, Tennessee.  He was a big man as he weighed over 300 pounds.  All the Pattons were big men.  Uncle Will Patton and Uncle Billy McGinn lived at the home of Jasper N. Patton at least part of their lives."
011 PATTON Samuel Marion 2/14/1819 12/8/1886  
Other Info from tombstone: (Masonic symbol)   Husband of Nancy J. PATTON
Other Info: Samuel Marion PATTON was the son of David PATTON, a veteran of the War of 1815.  S. M. PATTON married Nancy Jane MCLOUD and they raised five children in Cannon County.
012 PATTON Robert J. 12/4/1855 11/16/1927  
Sarah J. 11/3/1850 1/10/1928  
Epitaph for both: Gone but not forgotten.
Other Info from tombstone for Robert: Brother.
Other Info from tombstone for Sarah: Sister.
Other Info for Robert: Robert never married, but lived all his life in the log house built by his parents before his birth.  He was the son of Nancy JERNIGAN and John Overton PATTON.  After his father died, he continued to farm and take care of his mother and sister. (Notes of Mrs. Elizabeth Patton SILER, June 1996)
Other Info for Sarah: Sister of Robert J. PATTON, daughter of Nancy JERNIGAN and John Overton PATTON.  Sarah lived at the log home with her brother and parents.  She never married.  She continued to live in the family home following her parents' deaths and shared the farm life with her brother Robert who died in 1927 at age 72.  Sarah followed him to her eternal rest two months later in January 1928.  She was 78.  (Notes of Mrs. Elizabeth SILER, June 1996)
013 PATTON William D. 1851 1908  
UNMARKED GRAVES: Between the two fenced Family Plots which anchor each end of the Patton Burial Ground are not only the tombstones of Harriet MCCORKLE, William MCGINN and Samuel Y. BRANDON but a number of large fieldstones which are believed to mark graves.  The existence of the cemetery was not generally recognized by owners after 1937 when all reference to the Patton Cemetery was omitted from the Deed.  This section was mowed, used as grazing pasture for cattle, and left untended.  Where the graves may be or even what happened to some of the large fieldstones is open to conjecture.  Other that are believe to be buried here have been assigned 900 numbers below.
901 BRANDON David G.      
902 BRANDON Elizabeth Marie Patton      
903 MCLOUD Nancy      
(Wife of Samuel Marion PATTON)
904 PATTON David      
905 PATTON Jemima Overton      
           

 

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