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John S. Barrett – Margaret Patterson Family History

Written by Lynn Fusinato
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:06
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According to 1850 and 1860 Missouri Census data, John Stephen Barrett was born in North Carolina around 1791.   The names of John’s parents were not passed down to his current descendents in either family records or family lore.  However, words found on a Holloman family monument in the family cemetery plot where a Mary Barrett Holloman is buried state that Mary was born in NC in 1783 and her parents were Joseph and Winnie Barrett.  That Mary Barrett Holloman is thought to be John’s older sister and those words would imply that Joseph and Winnie Barrett were his parents too.

An 1893 Goodspeed biosketch of John Barrett’s son Dr. Beverly Allen Barrett stated that before the Revolutionary War John’s (unnamed) paternal grandfather migrated from Ireland to Virginia where he settled and raised his large family, including John’s (unnamed) father who fought for independence during that War.  The biosketch indicated that John was born in the late 1700s and that he had a large number of brothers and sisters.  The biosketch went on to say that John’s family migrated to Tennessee while he was still a boy and that around 1811 he migrated from Tennessee to Missouri where he settled in Ste. Genevieve Co.  John’s various siblings were said to have settled in Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri.

Interestingly, that 1893 Goodspeed biosketch of Dr. Beverly A. Barrett stated that John’s father (unnamed in the biosketch) was killed in the Revolutionary War during the Battle of Cowpens.  Revolutionary War records do show that a Joseph Barrett died in that battle.  However, since the Battle of Cowpens occurred in Jan. 1781 (10 years before John S. Barrett was born), it is obvious that John’s father could not have been killed in that battle and also father a son some nine years after he had died.   Possibly Dr. B. A. Barrett or one of his children obtained records from the U.S. War Department that a Joseph Barrett died at the Battle of Cowpens and, knowing John’s father was named Joseph Barrett, did they mistakenly assume that Joseph Barrett had been John’s father?  

The only Joseph Barrott/Barrett listed in the 1800 Census for North Carolina lived in Wake Co. with a wife, one son and two daughters.  This Joseph and his wife were both age 45 or older and their three children were all between the ages 10-15.   It is very likely this Joseph was the father of John S. Barrett and the Mary Barrett who married Edmund B. Holloman in Wake County NC in 1804.  Information published about Edmund Holloman’s family reported that Mary and Edmund Holloman and their oldest child Allan moved from Wake Co. NC to northeastern TN in 1807 and remained in TN until 1810 when they moved to Missouri.  Holloman family lore indicates that around 1810-1811 the Holloman couple and a brother of Mary joined a wagon train that was headed from northeastern TN to Missouri and that the group of settlers first established homesteads in the Cape Girardeau district.  Reportedly, these settlers moved north to Ste. Genevieve Co. MO in late 1812 due to the devastation wrought to their original homesteads by the series of New Madrid earthquakes that struck Missouri in 1811 and 1812.  It seems very likely that John S. Barrett’s parents moved from Wake Co. NC to TN between 1800 and 1807 and that the Holloman couple moved from NC to TN to live near Mary Barrett Holloman’s parents and siblings.  Since the 1821 will of Edmund Holloman named his wife Mary and John S. Barrett as co-executors of his estate, it is also very likely that John S. Barrett was the Barrett brother who traveled with the Hollomans to MO.

John S. Barrett and the Hollomans settled in the New Tennessee settlement located in the Saline township of Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.  John established his homestead just southeast of the present day town of Coffman, MO, while Edmund Holloman claimed land along the Saline Creek near the community today known as Avon, MO.  Originally Avon was established as Bolivia, MO, in 1828 but later became known as Patterson until its name was changed to Avon in 1849.  Presumably, it got the name Patterson in honor of one or more of the members of the Patterson family who lived in the New Tennessee settlement in the 1820s-1840s: James, John and Joseph Patterson.  The 70-80 year-old James Patterson listed in the 1830 census living near Edmund Holloman (in the Avon area) is thought to have been the father of Margaret Patterson who married John S. Barrett around 1812.  The John and Joseph Patterson listed in the 1830 census living near John S. Barrett’s family (just outside Coffman) are thought to have been Margaret’s brothers.

According to the previously mentioned biosketch of Dr. Beverly Allen Barrett, Margaret Patterson Barrett’s parents were Margaret Carr and James Patterson.  The biosketch reported that James was of Scottish descent and that he had lost an eye fighting for independence in the Revolutionary War.  A Revolutionary War pension application submitted for James Patterson in Ste. Genevieve in 1832 indicated that James had been born in Cumberland Co, PA, in 1755 and that his family had moved to York Co. SC when he was ten.  Most likely, James Patterson met and married Margaret Carr in South Carolina after he served in the Revolutionary War.  Their daughter Margaret was born in South Carolina around 1792.  According to Barrett family lore, James and his family moved to Maury Co. TN (probably in the very early 1800s).  Some years later they moved on to Ste. Genevieve Co. MO where he and his wife remained until their deaths: James’ death between 1832 and 1840 and his wife’s between 1840 and 1850.  

John and Margaret Barrett probably met in Missouri and married around 1811 or 1812.  During the course of their long marriage, the Barrett couple had ten children:  James William (b. 1813), Nancy (b. abt. 1814),  Joseph (b. abt. 1816), Mary A. (b. abt. 1818), John C. (b. abt. 1822), Beverly A. (b. 1824-1826), George R. (b. 1827-1828), A. Clark (b. 1829-1830), Jane (b. 1833) and Mildred (b. 1836).  John’s main occupation in Ste. Genevieve County was farmer but he also dabbled in politics.  He was elected Judge of the St. Genevieve County Court from 1822-1824, then county assessor from 1828-1831.  John was also elected to the Missouri state legislature (i.e. the General Assembly) from 1828-1830.  Between 1831 and 1835 he was Post Master for the area around Avon (Patterson), MO.  In addition, he served as the sheriff of St. Genevieve County for at least one term.  He was appointed the 1840 Census taker for Ste. Genevieve County and those Census records are in his handwriting.   At some point before 1850, John apparently decided to become a physician, and after appropriate training, took up the practice of medicine.  At least four of his sons also became physicians.

In the 1840s, John moved his family from Ste. Genevieve Co. to Dallas Co. MO where he homesteaded about 40 acres.  By 1860 John and Margaret had moved to the community of Ebenezer in Greene Co. MO where they remained until they died sometime before 1870.  Two (likely three) of John and Margaret’s sons also died between 1860 and 1870, all doctors.  Possibly their deaths were related to the difficult times of the Civil War.

CHILDREN of Margaret Carr and John S. Barrett

JAMES WILLIAM BARRETT was born on January 26, 1813 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.  He grew up helping his father farm their homestead just south of current day Coffman, MO.  J. W. married Elizabeth Graham on March 30, 1843, when he was thirty years old and she was about twenty-five.  They settled on land near his father’s new homestead in Dallas County in the 1840s where they farmed and raised their seven children.  That land later became part of Webster Co. Missouri.  J. W. died in 1882 and was buried in Dallas Co. MO on the old Graham farm in a family cemetery that today is known as the Graham Cemetery.  Apparently,  J. W. was fond of naming his children for family members as he named one son for his father John S., two sons for his brothers Joseph and Beverly A. and one son with his own two names in reverse.  When his brother John C. Barrett died during the 1860s, J. W. and his wife took in the brother’s daughter (and most likely also her brother) to raise.  Interestingly, J. W.’s  youngest son William James Barrett married a granddaughter of J. W.’s brother Beverly Allen Barrett.

NANCY S. BARRETT was born around 1814 in Ste. Genevieve Co.  When she was about thirty years old, she married the Rev. John W. York, a widower who lived in St. Clair Co. IL with his young son and three daughters.  Nancy’s family first met Rev. York in 1827 when he was assigned as their Methodist-Episcopal preacher in the “Saline” Circuit of southeast Missouri.  At that time it took him eight weeks to visit each of the congregations in that circuit.  Rev. York and his first wife settled in Illinois shortly after they married and she gave birth to eight children before she died in the late 1830s (only four of her children were living in 1840).  Nancy Barrett acquired a ready made family when she married John in 1843.  Unfortunately, only ten months after she married, Nancy died of cholera in 1844.  A few years later her husband remarried to his third wife and then moved his family to Oregon.

JOSEPH BARRETT was born about 1816.  Reportedly he died around age 24, probably in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.

MARY A. BARRETT was born about 1818 in Ste. Genevieve Co.   In 1851 Mary married Morris M. McClure, a physician who practiced in Greene Co. MO in the early 1850s.  They had two children, Joseph Clark and Ella McClure, before Mary died around 1857 in Springfield, MO.  After Mary’s death, her children went to live with her parents for a few years until Morris was able to take over their care.   

JOHN C. BARRETT was born about 1822 in Ste. Genevieve Co.  During the 1840s John trained to become a physician, like his father, and in 1850 he was practicing medicine in Upper Fourche, AR, in Yell Co.  He may have been influenced to move to Arkansas by Madden and Holmes friends who had moved from Ste. Genevieve Co. to that area in the early 1840s.  Around 1852 John married Lucy F. Wood and a year later their daughter Deborah (called “Dora”) was born in Arkansas.  By the time their son John Ivan was born in 1859, John had moved his family to Dallas Co. MO where they lived near his parents and siblings.  Lucy died in mid 1860 and John remarried a local girl, Eliza Jane Warden, in 1862.  John died sometime in the mid to late 1860s in Buffalo, MO (Dallas Co.), and his brother James William Barrett took in at least one and, most likely, both of John’s children to raise.  In 1870 both of John’s children were living next door to their uncle J. W. Barrett.

BEVERLY ALLEN BARRETT was born in 1826 in Ste. Genevieve Co.  He was obviously named for the Beverly Allen who served as Ste. Genevieve’s representative to the lower house of the Missouri state legislature between 1826-1828.  Reportedly, Beverly A. was privately tutored as he grew up in Ste. Genevieve and then was sent to school in Fredericktown, MO.  Around 1846 he went to medical school in St. Louis where he trained two years to become a physician.  In 1848 Dr. B. A. Barrett married Susan Randleman, who had been born in Illinois, and they settled in Dallas Co. MO where he opened his medical practice.   In 1858 he moved his wife and their young children to Springfield, MO (in Greene Co.), where he practiced medicine until 1863 when he was arrested during the Civil War for helping a condemned Confederate prisoner escape.  For his participation in aiding that escape, the Union forces imprisoned Dr. B. A. Barrett until the end of the War in the Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis (a medical school before the war).  Sadly, his wife Susan died while he was imprisoned in St. Louis.  After the War ended, Dr. B. A. Barrett remained in St. Louis practicing medicine until about 1870 when he moved his family and his medical practice back to Greene Co.  In 1871 he married Mary Priest and the couple settled in Springfield, MO.  While Dr. Barrett and Mary had no children together, they took in and raised four of his granddaughters after their mother (his daughter Mary J. Barrett Moore) died.  One of these granddaughters married his brother James William Barrett’s youngest son.  Dr. B. A. Barrett died in 1899 and his second wife Mary in 1937.  Both are buried at Maple Park Cemetery in Springfield, MO.

GEORGE R. BARRETT was born between 1827-1828 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.  He moved with his parents to Dallas Co. in the 1840s and helped his father with farming until sometime in the early 1850s when he trained in medicine to become a physician like his father and some of his brothers.  He opened his practice a few miles north of Springfield, MO, in the community of Ebenezer, where his parents had moved around 1857.  George married Francis L. Sims and their first daughter was born in 1857.  He and Francis had another daughter and two sons before George died near the end of the Civil War in 1865.  Francis raised their four children alone in Robberson, MO.  Their sons (John R. and George R. Barrett) both became druggists, one daughter (Mary J. Barrett) married a druggist and the second daughter (Anna M. Barrett) married a grocer.

A. CLARK BARRETT was born around 1830 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.  Like his slightly older brother George, Clark moved with his parents to Dallas Co. in the 1840s and helped his father with farming until sometime in the early to mid 1850s when he trained in medicine to become a physician like his father and a number of his brothers.  In the late 1850s he opened his medical practice in the Benton township of Dallas County Missouri where his older brother John was practicing medicine.  In 1860 Clark was listed in the Dallas County Census with a seventeen year old wife named Ada who had been born in Arkansas.  Sometime between 1860 and 1863 the young couple had a son Clark S. Barrett.  Apparently A. Clark Barrett died in 1862 or 1863 and his brother-in-law Dr. Zacharia Van Hoose served as the administrator overseeing the money he left to his young son Clark S. Barrett.

JANE BARRETT was born in 1833 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.  She moved with her parents to Dallas Co. MO in the 1840s and died around age 18 in the early 1850s.

MILDRED BARRETT was born in 1836 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.  She moved with her parents to Dallas Co. in the 1840s and then to the community of Ebenezer, MO, a few miles north of Springfield in Greene Co. during the mid to late 1850s.   She married Dr. Zacharia Van Hoose around 1867 and they settled a little south of Springfield, MO, in the Brookline township.  By 1880 they had two daughters and two sons living.  Between 1880 and 1888, one of those sons (John Lee) and her husband died.  Mildred and her three surviving children (Mary Ella, Lydia Louise and James B.) moved to Springfield before 1900.  Her two daughters grew up to became teachers and her son became a druggist. When she  died in 1919, Mildred was buried Maple Park Cemetery in Springfield where her brother Beverly Allen Barrett, her husband Zacharia and at least three of her children (Lydia Louise, John Lee and James B.) are buried.  

       JOHN S. BARRETT-MARGARET PATTERSON FAMILY GENEALOGY CHART

01 John Stephen BARRETT, physician, prob. son of Joseph and Winnie Barrett
                           b. abt. 1791 NC; d. bet. 1860-1870 Ebenezer, MO
  +  Margaret PATTERSON, daug. of Margaret Carr & James Patterson;
                           b. 1792 SC; d. d. bet. 1860-1870 Ebenezer, MO;
                           m. abt. 1811  
     02 James William BARRETT, b. 01-26-1813 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;  
                           d. 05-16-1882 near Conway, MO;
        + Elizabeth GRAHAM, b. 07-16-1818 TN;
                           d. 05-08-1902 near Conway, MO;
                           m. 03-30-1843 MO
          03 Richard Clark BARRETT, b. 02-11-1845 Dallas Co. MO;
                           d. 10-13-1927 MO (prob. Wright Co. MO)
             + Sarah F. LastNameUnk, b. 10-19-1846; 03-03-1920 MO
                           m. 1875 MO
          03 John Stevens BARRETT, b. 10-08-1846 Dallas Co. MO;
                           d. 07-23-1940 Webster Co. MO
             + Elizabeth  LastNameUnk, b. 1853; d. 1935
                04 Edna BARRETT, b. 1884 MO
                04 Inez BARRETT, b. 1890 MO
                   + m1. a YOUNG?, father of Inez Young?
                   + m2. Calvin W. HAYMES, b. 1894 MO
          03 Nancy Caroline BARRETT, b. 09-05-1848 Dallas Co. MO;
                           d. 07-23-1940 Webster Co. MO
          03 Sarah Ann BARRETT, b. 10-11-1851 MO; d. NM
          03 Joseph Coke BARRETT, b. 12-31-1852 MO; d. 05-10-1869 MO
          03 Beverly Allen BARRETT, b. 09-25-1855 MO; d. 09-12-1879 MO
          03 William James BARRETT, b. 09-20-1858 MO; d. 05-28-1939 MO
             + Elizabeth “Bettie” L. MOORE, b. 12-08-1871 Forsyth, MO;
                           d. 03-21-1953 MO;
                           m. 01-24-1888 MO          
                04 Beverly Allen BARRETT, b. Mar 1889 Webster Co. MO
                04 James H.  BARRETT, b. May 1891 Webster Co. MO
     02 Nancy S. BARRETT, b. abt 1814 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO; d. 1844 IL
                           m. 09-05-1843
        + Rev. John W. YORK, b. 09-13-1801 GA; d. 02-19-1884 Corvallis, OR
     02 Joseph BARRETT, b. 1816 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO; d. abt 1840 MO
     02 Mary A. BARRETT, b. 1818 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                           d. abt. 1857 in Springfield, MO;
        + Morris Mitchell McCLURE, physician, b. 05-12-1824 TN;
                           d. 12-05-1907
                           m. 10-28-1851 Greene Co. MO
          03 Joseph Clark McCLURE, b. abt. 1853 MO
          03 Ella McCLURE, b. abt. 1857 MO
     02 John C. BARRETT, physician, b. abt. 1822 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                           d. bet. 1862-1870 Buffalo, MO
        + m1. Lucy F. WOOD, b. 06-17-1827 TN; d. 07-22-1860 Dallas Co. MO;
                           m. 1850 AR
          03 Deborah “Dora” BARRETT, b. abt. 1853 AR; d. 1907 TX
             + James JAMESON
                04 Roberta Barrett JAMESON, b. 1891 TX
          03 John Ivan BARRETT, b. JAN 1859 MO; d. 1924 AR
        + m2. Eliza J. WARDEN, 2nd wife of John C. Barrett, b. 1830 TN
                           m. 08-28-1862 Webster Co. MO
     02 Beverly Allen BARRETT, physician, b. 01-08-1826 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                           d. 06-01-1899 MO, buried Maple Park Cemetery, Springfield
        + m1. Susan RANDLEMAN, b. abt. 1826 IL; d. 1863 St. Louis MO;
                           m. 1848 MO
          03 Mary J. BARRETT, b. abt. 1849 MO; d. 1876 MO
             + Milton Harvey MOORE, b. abt 1837 TN; d. bet. 1870-1880
                04 Margaret Ada MOORE, b. abt. 1868 MO
                04 Zachariah MOORE, b. abt 1869 MO
                04 Elizabeth L. MOORE, b. 12-08-1871 Forsyth, MO;
                           d.03-21-1953 MO
                   + William James BARRETT, b. 09-20-1858 MO; d. 05-28-1939 MO;
                           m. 01-24-1888 MO
                04 Lula Louise MOORE, b. abt. 1873 MO
                04 Mary Ida MOORE, b. abt 1865 MO
          03 Edward George BARRETT, b. 1852 MO; d. 1924 WY
             + m1. Lula MORGAREIDGE, b. Oct. 1859 OH; m. 1877 MO; divorc. 1901 MT
                04 Simeon Allen BARRETT, b. 12-16-1882 MO; d. 06-24-1969 MT
                   + Emily BATES, b. 04-07-1883 England; d. 03-03-1966 MT;
                           m. 12-16-1902 SD
                04 Charles BARRETT, b. 08-07-1886 NE
                04 Mabel BARRETT, b. 02-13-1891 WY; d. Hanford, CA
             + m2. Alice “Allie” May REDDING, b. abt. 1876 MO
                           m. 1906 MT
                04 Beverly Allen BARRETT, b. 07-24-1910 WY; d. Aug 1984 FL
                04 Lee E. BARRETT, b. 1913 WY; d. aft. 1992
                04 Helen M. BARRETT, b. 1918 WY; d. 1978 OR
                04 Harry R. BARRETT,  b. 1918 WY; d. 1992 NV
          03 Ada BARRETT, b. abt. 1856 MO
             + George MYGOTT,  
                           m. 03-05-1889 MO
          03 Frederick Allen BARRETT, b. 06-08-1858 MO; d. 02-27-1920 St. Louis, MO
             + Anna Myrah RADFORD, b. 08-28-1857 IL, d. 07-16-1928 St. Louis, MO
                           m. 07-27-1881 St. Louis, MO
                04 Ada BARRETT, b. abt. 1887 Kansas  
                04 Robert L. BARRETT, b. abt. 1889 Kansas  
          03 Robert L. BARRETT, b. abt. 1863 MO; d. March 1900
             + Julia C. “Lula” BURNS, b. abt. 1867; d. 03-26-1944 Springfield, MO
                04 Leah/Leo BARRETT, b. abt 1887 MO
                04 Beverly Allen BARRETT, b. abt 1889 MO
                04 Mary BARRETT
                   + a YOUNGER
                04 George BARRETT, b. abt. 1892 MO
                04 Robert BARRETT, b. abt. 1894 MO
                04 Margaret BARRETT
                   + a PECK
                04 Helen BARRETT, b. abt 1897 MO
                   + a RENRICI
        + m2. Mary PRIEST, 2nd wife of Beverly A. Barrett, b. 09-24-1845 TN;
                           d. 08-06-1937, buried Maple Park Cemetery Springfield, MO
                           m. 1871 MO
     02 George R. BARRETT, physician, b. bet. 1827-1828 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                           d. abt. 1865 MO
        + Francis L. SIMS, b. abt 1837 TN; d. aft 1880
                           m. abt. 1855
                04 Mary J. BARRETT, b. Feb 12, 1857 MO; d. 05-02-1912 Springfield, MO
                   + William REED, b. 02-05-1851; d. 04-30-1930 Springfield, MO; m. abt 1878
                04 Anna M. BARRETT, b. 05-11-1859 MO; d. 09-20-1931 MO
                   + Alferd V. BALL, b. May 1857 England
                04 John R. BARRETT, b. Dec 1862 MO; d. 08-28-1915 Albuquerque, NM
                   + Margaret A. PIPKIN, b. May 1863 MO; m. 09-27-1887 MO
                04 George R. BARRETT, b. Dec 1865 MO; d. 01-26-1943 Neodesha, KA
                   +m1. Rebecca BROWNING, b. 01-28-1868; d. 06-24-1896; m. 11-27-1890
                       05 Rinker Reed BARRETT, b. 07-22-1892 MO; d. 11-14-1943 MO
                   +m2. Kate C. LastNameUnk, b. abt. 1870 OH; m. bet. 1900-1910
     02 A. Clark BARRETT, physician, b. abt. 1830 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                           d. abt. 1863  
        + Ada LastNameUnk, b. abt. 1853 AR
          03 Clark S. BARRETT, b. bet. 1860-1863 MO    
     02 Jane BARRETT, b. abt. 1833 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                           d. abt. 1851 MO
     02 Mildred R. BARRETT, b. 12-04-1836 Ste. Genevieve Co. MO;
                           d. 03-26-1919 MO, buried Maple Park Cemetery, Springfield
        + Zacharia VAN HOOSE, physician, b. 1823 KY; d. 1887 MO
                           m. abt. 1867 MO
                04 Mary Ella VAN HOOSE, b. Mar 1868 MO; d. aft. 1900
                04 Lydia Louise VAN HOOSE, b. Feb 1870 MO; d. 12-02-1961 MO
                04 John Lee VAN HOOSE, b. 1872 MO; d. 1881, buried Springfield, MO
                04 James B. VAN HOOSE, b. 09-29-1874; d. 09-27-1931 Springfield, MO
                   + Agnes/Emaline LastNameUnk, b. abt 1896 LA
                04 ?Samuel M. VAN HOOSE?, b. 1877 MO; d. 1879, buried Springfield, MO

 

John Patterson (1790-1847) Family History by Lynn Fusinato and Audrey Steffee

Written by Audrey Steffee
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 07:19
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John Patterson was living in the Saline township of Ste. Genevieve County just east of Coffman, MO, when he died in 1847. (Will Probated 31 day August 1847.) He had obtained the patents for his Missouri homestead in the mid 1820s and he had probably been living on the land as early as 1818 and very likely since 1812. A Joseph Patterson, thought to have been John’s brother, obtained a land patent to property very close to John’s homestead during the mid 1820s and in the 1830s both of these Pattersons obtained patents to more property close to their original homesteads. According to Ste. Genevieve County census data recorded in 1830, both John and Joseph were born between 1780-1790 and both had seven children. The only other Pattersons listed in the Saline township in the 1830 Census was a 70-80 year old James Patterson and his 60-70 year old wife probably near the community of Avon, MO. This old couple are thought to have been the parents of John and Joseph and of the Margaret Patterson who was married to John S. Barrett, a nearby neighbor of John and Joseph’s. According to a Goodspeed biosketch of Beverly A. Barrett, a son of Margaret Patterson Barrett, Margaret’s parents were Margaret Carr and James Patterson, a Revolutionary War veteran who died in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO.

An application for a Revolutionary War pension filed in Ste. Genevieve Co. in Sept 3, 1832 by James Patterson indicated that James had been born in Cumberland Co, PA, in 1755 and that his family had moved to York Co. SC when he was ten. The pension records show that James’ younger brother who lived in Washington Co. MO in 1832 provided testimony vouching for the validity of James’ pension claim. (Most likely James’ brother was the Joseph Patterson listed in the 1830 census for Washington Co.) Census data and Barrett family lore indicates that James’ daughter Margaret was born in South Carolina around 1792. Some years after the War, James moved his family west, reportedly, first to Maury Co. TN (probably around 1805) and a bit later on to Ste. Genevieve where he and his wife remained until their deaths. Since James was not listed in the 1840 census for Ste. Genevieve Co. while John S. Barrett’s household had acquired an elderly (80-90) year old woman, it is very likely that James died between 1832 and 1840 and his wife Margaret went to live with her daughter’s family. Margaret Patterson likely died between 1840 and 1850 as she was not listed in the Ste. Genevieve Co. Census data for 1850.

Apparently, Joseph Patterson, his wife and children moved away from Ste. Genevieve Co. in the late 1830s. It is not known what happened to Joseph and his descendents. John Patterson and his family were still living in the Saline township at the time of the 1840 Census and his newly married oldest son James lived separately but close by. His daughter Jane Patterson had married English immigrant Thomas Cheesbrough and they lived next door to William Holmes in the Beauvais township of Ste. Genevieve Co. According to probate records, John Patterson died in late July or very early August 1847. One probate paper dated Aug. 31, 1847, named his heirs (his children and sons-in-law): James, Martha (married to George W. Roe), Jane (married to Thomas Cheesbrough), Lorenzo B., Margaret, John G. and Relfe/Ralph Patterson. John’s wife was not named and may have died before he did. No record of her name has been found so far.

This group of Pattersons belonged to the Methodist-Episcopal faith. They and many of their neighbors in the New Tennessee Settlement formed a tight knit Methodist-Episcopal congregation in the Saline Circuit. The Rev. Jerome C. Berryman noted in his Memoir (completed in 1868) that he met the Pattersons at a Methodist-Episcopal camp meeting in 1827. According to Berryman, “Very shortly after my arrival in Missouri, a camp meeting was held in what was called New Tennessee, Ste. Geneieve Co. I attended in company with my brother Josias — where I first met Rev. John W. York, who was then pastor of Saline and St. Francois circuits. That fall he was married to Miss Mary Collied near Fredericktown. They moved to Illinois; in after years went to Oregon . . . Among the citizens living in New Tennessee were the Hollomans, Pattersons, Counts and Rev. John McFarland. The last was a man possessed of very good natural abilities, and did a good work for his part of the state as a citizen as well as a minister; he left the savor of a good name.” That Rev. John McFarland was often assigned as the preacher for the Saline Circuit after the Rev. York moved to Illinois. Rev. McFarland obtained a land patent in the mid 1820s that was just east of Joseph Patterson’s homestead. When the Methodist-Episcopal Conference decided that a permanent meeting house should be built in the New Tennessee Settlement in the early 1840s, that stone meeting house was built on the western edge of John McFarland’s land, very close to Joseph Patterson’s homestead. John Patterson’s son Lorenzo was one of four trustees for that Church in 1849 and a number of John’s descendents are known to be buried in the cemetery adjacent to that stone meeting house. That cemetery is called the Old Stone Methodist Cemetery today. It is possible that John Patterson, his wife and his parents are also buried in that cemetery in unmarked graves.

Children of John Patterson

JAMES PATTERSON was born around 1811 in either Tennessee or Missouri. James married Sarah A. Thompson around 1840 and they set up housekeeping near James parents in Ste. Genevieve County. By 1850 the couple had moved to the northeastern part of Madison Co. where James supported his family as a blacksmith. Wife Sarah died between 1856 and 1860 and James moved with his children back to Ste. Genevieve County to the Jackson township where they lived at the time of the 1860 census. According to census data, James and Sarah had four children before she died: Sarah J. Martha, George W., Margaret A., and Elizabeth Patterson. It is not known what happened to James and his daughters after 1860. Reportedly, during the Civil War his son George was captured by Confederate troups led by the Swamp Fox (Jeff Thompson) and forced to join the CSA. Young George escaped and went to Kentucky where he joined the 4th Regiment Tennessee Infantry (USA). After the war, George married Margaret J. Brannan of Greene County Tennessee on 15 June 1868. They had a two year old daughter Laura Alice when they joined a wagontrain in 1871 headed from Greene Co., TN to Howell Co., MO. They settled near Willow Springs, MO, and homesteaded 160 acres. George’s wife Margaret died between 1880 and 1890. Around 1890 George remarried to a woman named Elizabeth and before 1900 they had two children: Bessie and Phillip G. Patterson.

MARTHA PATTERSON was born sometime between 1811 and 1818, most likely around 1813. In the early to mid 1840s she married George W. Roe, a young neighbor of John S. Barrett. The couple was living in Illinois when her father John Patterson died in 1847. It is not known what happened to Martha and George after her father died.

JANE PATTERSON was born around 1815, probably in Missouri. Around 1837, she married Thomas Cheesbrough who had newly immigrated from England to Ste. Genevieve County MO. They set up housekeeping in the Beauvais township of Ste. Genevieve Co. next door to William Holmes, a friend of her father. Jane and Thomas had two children at the time the 1840 Census was taken and three more before she died sometime between Aug. 1847 and 1850. The 1850 Census shows that Thomas was not able to care for his children after his wife died. His two oldest children were taken in for a time by Jane’s brothers James and John Patterson and by a neighbor of John’s named Jones. The three smallest children were listed in the census in the care of the Cheesbrough’s neighbor William Holmes. Thomas himself lived with another couple, Antoine and Felicitia Janis, who may have been close friends. By 1853 Thomas had remarried and established a home for his children. He married his wife Jane’s younger sister Margaret, probably knowing that no other step mother he might find would love his children as much as their mother’s sister.

MARGARET PATTERSON was born in April of 1816 in Ste. Genevieve County MO. She grew up on her father’s farm helping her mother with the domestic chores. She did not marry until she was about 37 years old when Thomas Cheesbrough, widower of her sister Jane and father of five children, asked her to marry him and become his bride and the step-mother of her five nieces and nephews. She and Thomas did not have any children of their own and so she concentrated on being a good mother to her nieces and nephews. Thomas’s oldest daughter Felicity Ann Simpson loved her especially. After Thomas died in 1874, Ann’s family took Margaret into their home and, after Ann’s husband died probably in the 1890s, her son-in-law Henry A. Frazier took in both widows.

LORENZO BARRETT PATTERSON, called “Bea” for his middle initial, was born in Missouri in 1818. He grew up in Ste. Genevieve County MO helping his father John Patterson farm his homestead just east of current day Coffman, MO. Around 1843 Lorenzo married Evaline Abernathy and they setup housekeeping near his parents’ home. When his father John died in 1847 Lorenzo was appointed the administrator of his father’s estate and had to deal with all of the problems of settling the estate. Lorenzo and his wife probably moved into his father’s home with his younger sister Margaret and brother Ralph lived as they were all listed together when the 1850 census was taken. By 1860 his siblings had married and moved out. He and Evaline were listed in the 1860 Census with seven children: Robert L., Elizabeth, Arpy E. (Ellen?), Mary F., John R., Thomas H. and baby William H. Patterson. The decade surrounding the Civil War muct have been difficult for this family as for most all families living in Ste. Genevieve Co. The only members of this family found in the 1870 Census were daughter Mary living with her Aunt Margaret Patterson Cheesbrough and possibly Arpy if she was the Ellen Patterson living with the Alexander family in the Saline township. Reportedly Lorenzo died around 1871. His widow Eveline and three of their children were living in the Saline township at the time of the 1880 census and probably had been living there in 1870 too.

JOHN G. PATTERSON was born in 1825 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO. He grew up on his father’s homestead helping his father and brothers with farming the land. Around 1848 John’s eye was caught by pretty Cornelia (Caroline in the census) Cornell who may have been living with or visiting her step-sister Clarinda Keeth, a neighbor of the Pattersons in Ste. Genevieve County. They soon married and setup housekeeping near John’s siblings, probably on a part of his deceased father’s homestead. Cornelia’s sister Olivia moved in with them and it was not long before John’s younger brother Ralph began to court Olivia. Between 1850 and 1860 John decided he wanted to become a physician like John S. Barrett and Barrett’s older sons. John Patterson probably went to medical school in St. Louis. By 1860 John was practicing medicine in northwestern Arkansas in Crawford Co., not far from Indian Reservations in Oklahoma. John and Cornelia had four children at that time and they lived not far from Ralph and Olivia Patterson and their three children. It is not known exactly what happened to John and his family between 1860 and 1865. Based on lore passed down to his present day descendents and census data, it is presumed that John’s wife and children probably died of some illness they were exposed to from his medical practice, possibly from his treating Indians on the near by reservations.

By 1865 John had returned to Missouri, given up the practice of medicine and married his wife’s first cousin Eliza Jane Andrews of St. Francois Co. In the 1870 Census for St. Francois Co. the Patterson couple were listed with four children: Nancy A., Margret, McAnally and Lorenzo Patterson. Another daughter Eliza J. Patterson was born in 1871 shortly after John moved his family to Texas, possibly to live closer to his brother Ralph and sister-in-law Olivia. Unfortunately John’s daughter Margaret died after they got to Texas. Likely fearing he might loose his second family to illness, John decided to move again, this time to Oregon. The family traveled the whole way in their wagon pulled by a team of oxen. Apparently, things did not work out well for the family in Oregon because they again packed up their wagon and this time they headed back to Missouri. A sixth child was born in 1874 either while they were in Oregon or maybe shortly after they entered Missouri. Unfortunately John himself became ill and died in western Missouri, leaving his wife and young children to get back to St. Francois Co. as best they could. The oldest son, ten-year-old McNally, hauled wood with their team of oxen in order to feed the family that winter. In the Spring they made their way to St. Francois suffering hardships and losing one of their oxen. Then they lived depending on the kindness of their extended family in St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties until the sons became old enough to earn a living for their mother and siblings.

RELFE/RALPH PATTERSON was born about 1828 in Ste. Genevieve Co. MO. Around 1851 or 1852 Ralph married Olivia Cornell, the older sister of Cornelia Patterson (wife of his brother John). The couple had two children before they decided to move to Texas around 1858, shortly before their third child was born. By the time of the 1860 census, they were farming in Crawford Co. AR not far from where Ralph’s brother John was practicing medicine. However, Ralph and Olivia moved back to Texas before their fourth child was born in 1862. Possibly they had moved before Cornelia and her children died or maybe they moved to Texas because Cornelia and her children died. Ralph and Olivia settled in Fannin Co. in north Texas where their fourth child was born.

01 James Patterson, b. 1755 PA; d. Ste Genevieve Co. MO bet. 1832 and 1840

+ Margaret Carr, b. cir 1755; d. Ste. Genevieve Co. MO bet 1840-1850

02 John Patterson b. cir 1780-1790; d. Ste. Genevieve Co. MO July/Aug. 1847

+ Unk

03 James Patterson b. abt. 1811 TN/MO; d. aft 1860

+ Sarah Ann Thompson, b. abt. 1822 TN; m. St. Francois Co. MO 1838;

d. bet 1850 and 1860 MO

04 Sarah J. M. Patterson, b. 1842 MO (possibly Martha E. Patterson?)

04 George Washington Patterson, b. 7 Jan 1843 MO;

d. aft 1871 Howell Co., MO

+ Margaret J. Brannan, b. abt. 1843 Greene Co, TN;

m. 15 June 1868 TN; d. aft 1871 MO

05 Laura Alice Patterson, b. abt 1869

04 Margarette A. Patterson, b. abt. 1847 MO

04 Elizabeth Patterson, b. abt 1856 MO

03 Martha Patterson, b. bet. 1811-1818, most likely around 1813

+ George M./W. Roe of IL

03 Jane Patterson, b. abt. 1815 MO; d. bet. 1847-1850 MO

+ Thomas Cheesbrough, b. abt 1804 England

04 Joseph Cheesbrough, b. abt 1839 MO

04 Felicity Ann Cheesbrough, b. abt 1838 MO

04 Thomas Cheesbrough, b. abt 1841 MO

04 Mary Cheesbrough, b. abt 1843 MO

04 John Cheesbrough, b. abt 1846 MO

03 Margaret Patterson, b. Apr 1816, d. bet 1900 – 1910; no children

+ Thomas Cheesbrough, b. abt 1804 in England

03 Lorenzo B. Patterson, b. abt 1818 MO; d. 1871 MO

+ Nancy Eveline Abernathy, b. abt 1825

04 Robert L. Patterson, b. abt 1844 MO

04 Elizabeth Patterson, b. abt 1848 MO

04 Arpy E. Patterson, b. abt 1850 MO

04 Mary F. Patterson, b. abt 1852 MO

04 John R. Patterson, b. abt 1854 MO

04 Thomas H. Patterson, b. abt 1857 MO

04 William H. Patterson, b. abt 1859 MO

03 John G. Patterson, b. abt 1825 MO

+ Cornelia/Caroline Cornell, b. abt 1827 MO

04 Oliva F. Patterson, b. abt 1851 MO

04 Mary F. Patterson, b. abt 1852 MO

04 John C. Patterson, b. abt 1857 MO

04 Charles L. Patterson, b. abt 1859 TN (more likely TX)

+ Eliza Jane Andrews, b. abt 1835 MO; m. 08-31-1864 in St Francois Co., MO

04 Nancy A. PATTERSON b. abt. 1866 MO

04 Margret PATTERSON b. abt. 1867 MO

04 McAnally Andrews “Mack” PATTERSON

b. 10-16-1867 St Francois Co., MO

04 Lorenzo Barrett (“B”) PATTERSON b. 07-19-1869 MO

04 Eliza J. PATTERSON b. abt. 1871 MO

04 Clara M. PATTERSON b. abt. 1874 MO

03 Ralph Patterson, b. abt 1828 MO, d. bet 1900-1910 TX

+ Olivia Cornell, b. July 1825 MO; m. April 29 1851 MO; d. 1910 TX

04 Pleasant K. Patterson, b. ab. 1853 , d. bef 1880

04 Margret Fannie Patterson, b.01 Jan 1857 Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri , d.26 Oct 1949, Austin, Travis County, Texas

04 William Patterson, b. abt 1859 TX, d. bef 1880

04 Robert Lee Patterson, b. June 17, 1862, Missouri, d. 02 Jan 1943, Joy, Clay County, TX

+ Annie H. UNK b. July 1870 PA, d. bet 1908-1910

05 Benner Patterson, b. Feb 1889 TX

05 Luther W. Patterson b. Dec 1894 TX

05 Burton Patterson b. 1902 TX

05 Annie May Patterson b. 1904 TX

05 Warren P. Patterson b. 1908 TX

+ Annie L. UNK b. 1877 AR, d. aft 1920

04 UNK Patterson

04 UNK Patterson

04 UNK Patterson

02 Joseph Patterson, b. bet 1780-1790; d. aft 1830

+ UNK had 4 sons and probably 3 daughters

02 Margaret Patterson, b. 1793 SC; d. bet 1860-1870 Greene Co. MO

+ John S. Barrett, b. 1790 NC; d. bet 1860-1870 Greene Co. MO

03 James William Barrett, b. 1813 MO; d. 1882 MO

03 Nancy S. Barrett, b. abt. 1814 MO; d. 1844 IL

03 Joseph Barrett, b. abt. 1816 MO; d. abt. 1840

03 Mary A. Barrett, b. 1818; d. abt. 1857 MO

03 John C. Barrett, b. abt. 1822 MO; d. bet. 1862-1870 MO

03 Beverly Allen Barrett, b. 1826 MO; d. 1899 MO

03 George R. Barrett, b. abt. 1827 MO; d. abt.1865 MO

03 A. Clark Barrett, b. abt. 1830 MO; d. abt 1863 MO.

03 Jane Barrett, b. abt 1833 MO; d.abt 1851 MO

03 Mildred Barrett, b. 1836 MO; d.1919 MO

 

Thomas Cheesbrough and Jane Patterson

Written by Audrey Steffee
Monday, 12 January 2009 15:35
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The Family History Of

Thomas Cheesbrough and Jane Patterson

By

Inez Audrey Cheesebrough Steffee 

Thomas Cheesbrough, a man of English ancestry came to the United States in July 19, 1834 on the Ship “Virginian” from Liverpool England . He traveled from the New York port alone across country to Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. I have found no records so far of his travels across the country to Ste. Genevieve. Almost nothing is known of his life before he arrived at the New York port from England and further research needs to be done. He is first seen in Ste. Genevieve County Missouri in the 1840 census. He is listed as being married with two children under the age of five. His first child was born in 1838 meaning he got married to Jane Patterson in about 1837. I never new what Thomas Cheesbroughs first wifes name was until research done in 2007 with the help of two researchers. Proof of this in the probate record of Janes father John Patterson of Saline Twp, Ste. Genevieve County Missouri as stated below:

State of Missouri

County of Ste. Genevieve

 

Before me the undersigned Judge of the Probate matter and for the county of Ste. Genevieve aforesaid personally appeared Lorenzo B. Patterson, Administrator of the estate of John Patterson deceased, who being duly sworn says, that the deceased died instate to the best of his knowledge and belief that James, Martha, married to George W. Roe, Jane married to Thomas Cheesbrough, Margaret, John G., Ralph and the said Lorenzo B. Patterson are the legal heirs of the said deceased, that they are residents of this county excepting George W. Roe who is residing in the State of Illinois, that we will make a perfect inventory of and faithfully administrator all the estate of the deceased, and pay the debts as far as the assets will intend, and the law directs, and account for and pay all assets which that come to his possession or knowledge- – sworn to and subscribed before me this 31 day August 1847

Eloy Le Compts J. Probate Signed: Lorenzo B. Patterson

 Thomas and Jane had five children: Feliceeian Ann (born 1838), Joseph (born 1839), Thomas D. (born 1840), Mary (born 1843) and John P.(born 1846). All children survived and married and all but one stayed in Ste. Genevieve County or St. Francois County, Missouri. One went to California but came back. In the 1850 census for Ste. Genevieve County, Thomas is listed alone and his children were living with the Pattersons, Holmes, and Jones families until he was able to provide a new home for them. Jane died some time between 1848-1850 (date unknown). Thomas put his children in the hands of the Patterson family members and the Holmes family. He trusted them. Thomas was active in the County of Ste. Genevieve and purchased several pieces of land.

On March 4, 1854, Thomas married Margaret C. Patterson. She was the sister of Jane Patterson. There were no children from this union. She was content to raise the children of her sister. They settled on land purchased by Thomas in Saline Twp, Ste. Genevieve County. Jane and Margaret C. Patterson were the daughters of John Patterson , son of James William Patterson and Margaret Carr Patterson. All John Pattersons children were born in Missouri (I believe Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri). James William Patterson was born 1755 in Pennsylvania and Margaret Carr was said to be born in South Carolina. Both traveled to Tennessee and then on to Missouri where they are listed in the 1830 Census for Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. I believe they arrived earlier in Missouri but there is only the 1830 census as Missouri did not become a state until 1821 and a lot of the early census records have been lost.

In 1850, Thomas Cheesbrough was living in the home of Antoine Janis and his wife Felicite in Beauvais Twp, Ste. Genevieve County . His children were with his first wife’s family. In the 1860 census Thomas Cheesbrough is in Saline Twp, Ste. Genevieve County, with his second wife Margaret C. Patterson Cheesbrough and four of the children: Joseph, Felicite A., Thomas D., and John P. Mary was married to a John Kennon on May 10 1860. In the 1870 census, Thomas and Margaret were living in Saline Twp. Ste. Genevieve County , Missouri. Age is wrong in this census for Thomas. Two of his daughters were living in the same area Annie Cheesbrough Simpson and Mary Cheesbrough Kennon.

Thomas Cheesbrough died August 27, 1874 in Saline Twp., Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. He has come to this county from England, traveled to Missouri, settled in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died there. He is buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery in Saline Twp, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. I think that Jane Patterson Cheesbrough is buried in the Stone Church Cemetery but there is no proof or a headstone. When visiting this cemetery I found some spaces next to Thomas’s grave that could be a space for Jane and also Margaret C. Patterson Cheesbrough. There is no concrete evidence of this theory. Below is a copy of his will and it took Margaret C. Patterson Cheesbrough about three years to finally get it out of probate and recorded.

Stone inscription: “Thomas Cheesebrough, Born June 9, 1804 died August 27, 1874 md Margaret C.”

LAST WILL TESTAMENT

I, Thomas Cheesebrough, of the county of Ste. Genevieve and State of Missouri being of sound mind and disposing memory do make and ordain this my last will and testament.

I give, devise and dispose of my estate real and personal (save what shall be necessary for the payment of my just debts and funeral expenses) in the following manner. I give to my beloved wife Margaret Cheesebrough, all my estate both real and personal during her life and after her death I give the same to my children equality. That is to my daughter Felicity A. Simpson, to my son Joseph Cheesebrough and Thomas B. Cheesebrough and my daughter Mary Kennon and my son John P. Cheesebrough. I give to each of my children above named after the death of my wife all my estate both real and personal each to have an equal share of the same.

In witness, whereof, I here to set my hand and seal and publish and declare this to be my last will and testament on this 8th day of May 1870.

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Thomas Cheesebrough, as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presence have subscribed our names as witness thereto, 

Signed: Thomas Cheesebrough Seal

Signed: John Coffman
G. W. Griffith

Last Will of Thomas Cheesebrough, Dec’d. Recorded Book D, Page 153, 154 & 155.
Probated & filed for Record April 5, 1877, John L. Bogy, Clerk, Approved by the court April 20, 1877.

Margaret C. Patterson Cheesbrough lived with her step daughter in Feliceean A. Cheesbrough Simpson in the 1880 census and she was 54 years old. She was also living with Feliceean A. Cheesbrough Simpson in the 1900 census in Saline Twp., Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri as Step in Mother and she was 84 years of age. Margaret died sometime between 1900 and 1910 as she is not in the 1910 census anywhere.

Annie Cheesbrough Simpson must have thought a great deal for her step mother to not desert her after Thomas died.

Most all of his children and grand children stayed in Ste. Genevieve county and St. Francois County Missouri and raised their families. Thomas D. Cheesbrough left the state and went to California with his wife and daughters. More on him later.

Children of Thomas and Jane

Feliceean A. CHEESBROUGH was born April 8 1838 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died April 3 1927 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and is buried in the Parkview Cemetery, Farmington, Missouri. She married a Charles Simpson on Nov 24 1867 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. He was born Jan 1 1838 and died Aug 26 1881 in Saline Twp., Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and is buried in the Old Stone Church cemetery. They had four children: Edwin D., Cora F., Anne P., and Arfey.

Joseph CHEESBROUGH (my great grand father) was born May 9 1839 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died Jul 28 1903 in St. Francois County, Missouri and is buried in Pleasant Hill United Baptist Church Cemetery in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. There is no grave stone marker for him there. (I have walked that cemetery several times and not found a marker. A lot of the old stones are damaged or under ground and the current caretaker knows nothing of the earlier burials there.) He married a Meekee (Woolford) Townsend (widow of Joseph W. Townsend) on Sept 26 1866 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. She was born on Jan 1 1835 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on Jan 22 1919 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. She is buried in the Parkview Cemetery in Farmington, Missouri. They had five children: Margaret Jane, Edwin P., John Henry, William Thomas and Samuel Joseph.

Thomas D. CHEESBROUGH was born on July 10 1840 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on Jan 24 1921 in Saline Twp., Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. He is buried in the Old Stone Church Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri according to his death certificate. Also, another verification of the children’s mother is Jane Patterson is listed on his death certificate. He married a Martha E. Henn on Jan 25 1866 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. She was born Dec 13 1844 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on November 16 1902 in Chico, Butte County, California. They had seven children: Mildred Jane, Virginia Martha, Mary Elizabeth, Anna May, Jose Charlotte, Mabel, Lanie L. All were born in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and six died in California and one died in Missouri.

Mary CHEESBROUGH was born in 1843 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and death is unknown. She married a John Kennon on May 10 1860 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. He was born about 1826 and died February 10 1865 in the Civil War and is buried in Nashville, Madison Co., Tennessee in Nashville National Cemetery, Madison Co., Tennessee. Mary married the second time to a William Bell in Dec 24, 1871 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. Mary and John had three children: Margaret J., Thomas Hughes, and Charles N. all born in Missouri.

John P. CHEESBROUGH was born in 1846 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and nothing more is know about him. I have been trying to find more about him but have been unsuccessful so far and further research has to be done.

Children of Joseph and Meekee

Margaret Jane CHEESBROUGH was born on July 15 1867 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on Jan 16 1946 in Millspring, Wayne County, Missouri. She is buried in Mayberry Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri next to her first husband. She married a Emanuel Smith on June 7 1888 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. He was born on May 16 1859 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on June 7 1917 in Ester, St. Francois County, Missouri and is buried in Mayberry Cemetery, Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri. Margaret married a second time to a Ira Stone date unknown. Margaret and Emanuel had ten children: Florence E., Nathaniel, Meekey Dora, Monroe S., Hattie Mae, Joseph Luther, Francis Abrum, Jessee B., Irene, and Katie May. All born in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri.

Edwin P. CHEESEBROUGH was born April 3 1871 in Coffman, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on March 19 1949 in Leadington, St. Francois County, Missouri. He married a Jennie Rudloff on Dec 27 1898 place unknown. She was born on July 31 1881 in Illinois and died on August 28 1969 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. Edwin and Jennie had eight children: Thomas Lee, Nettie B., Luther, Arthur, Melba, Harold William, Marie Allma, Ruth. Six born in Illinois and two born in Missouri.

John Henry CHEESEBROUGH was born June 13 1874 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and died unknown. Married a Anne Rudloff date and place unknown.

John Henry and Anne had four children: Emma, Rosie, Arel, and Edwin birth places unknown.

William Thomas CHEESEBROUGH was born on March 5 1877 in Ester, St. Francois County, Missouri and died on November 11 1942 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. He married a Dora Louise Rudloff date and place unknown. She was born on May 8 1885 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on Sept 24 1968 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. They had three children: Lorraine, Gladys, and Carroll L. all I believe were born in Missouri.

Samuel Joseph CHEESEBROUGH (my grandfather) was born on December 13 1880 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died on January 22 1919 in Silver Plume, Colorado. He is buried in the Parkview Cemetery, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. He married Caroline Elizabeth Chandler on April 6 1905 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri. She was born July 27 1879 in Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri and died Oct 13 1918 in Denver, Colorado and is buried in the Crown Hill Cemetery, Denver, Colorado. Samuel and Caroline had six children: Joseph Paul, Myra Inez, James Howard, Audrey Pauline, Donald Keith, and William Glenwood. All were born in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and two are still alive.

Children of Samuel Joseph and Caroline

Joseph Paul CHEESEBROUGH (my father) was born on October 14 1906 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and died on December 8 1978 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri. He married Catherine McKenzie Gordon on Sept 1 1930 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. She was born on Nov 5 1905 in Braehead, Gleniffer, Paisley, Renfrew County, Scotland and died on August 1 1988 in Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. They had three children: Joseph Paul Jr., Inez Audrey, and a unamed baby. All born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Myra Inez CHEESEBROUGH was born March 4 1908 in Flat River, St. Fransois County, Missouri and died on February 21 1999 in High Hill, Montgomery County, Missouri. She married a Joseph Langelier on June 2 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was born on Oct 30 1899 in Missouri and died on May 1978 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. They had one child: Nancy Caroline.

James Howard Cheesebrough TETLEY was born October 21 1909 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and died on January 9 2001 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. He married a Irma W. Brunsmann on February 28 1940 place unknown. They had no children. Howard was adopted by the Tetley family after his mother and father died.

Audrey Pauline CHEESEBROUGH was born January 12 1912 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and died on March 1 1998 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. She married a Herbert George G. Boxdorfer on February 21 1932 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. He was born August 28 1907 in Perryville, Perryville County, Missouri and died on October 1972 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. Herbert and Audrey had one child: Ann Margaret born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Donald Keith CHEESEBROUGH was born on February 17, 1914 in Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and is still alive. He married Dovie Ann Pullen on August 2 1941 place unknown. She was born August 17, 1914, place unknown and died on March 4, 1988 in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. They had two children: Donna Jean, and Mabel Lea.

William Glenwood Cheesebrough LEES was born November 18, 1916 Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri and died Mar 21, 2010. He married a Mary Louise Meier on August 22, 1937 place unknown. She was born on August 28 1916 in Fredericktown, Missouri and died on October 26, 2001 in Chesterfield, St. Francois County, Missouri. They had two children: Graham Glenwood and Van Paul. Glenwood was adopted by the Lees family when he was a baby after his mother and father died.

So there it is, the Family History of Thomas and Jane Patterson Cheesbroughs descendants. The next generation of these people is private. There are lots of allied lines to this family history that has been researched but too much to be added to this at this time. There are lots of sources and documents to numerous to report here. Anyone interested in this family history may contact me: Inez Audrey Cheesebrough Steffee (Audrey) at   (Enable Javascript to see the email address)