John Allen Patterson (1890)

DOWDEN, MCCALESTER, PATTERSON

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 12/11/2007 at 14:13:19

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, May 9, 1890
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Death of Mr. Patterson.

Mr. Patterson, the aged father-in-law of Dr. Dowden, died last Tuesday after a long illness with sciatic rheumatism and other ailments. He was a native of Pennsylvania and came west some twenty years ago, living for a time in Madison county, and later in Nebraska, having been in Winterset during his last illness. At the time of his death he was about seventy-four years old. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity, having been a member for over fifty years, and Evening Star Lodge turned out in a body and laid their aged brother to rest last Wednesday. He was a union veteran and a member of the G.A.R.
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Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, May 16, 1890
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OBITUARY

At the residence of Dr. Dowden, last Wednesday, the dark messenger came and took from our midst John Allen Patterson.

Mr. Patterson was born in Fayette Co., Penn., January 20, 1816, where he lived until 1871. At an early age he joined the army of Christ, and has been fighting in that great cause most of his life.

In 1844 he married Elizabeth McCalester, with whom he lived until her death in ’66. They had four children, two sons living in Nebraska, one daughter in Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Dowden, with whom he died. Mr. Patterson joined the union army and fought for his country and home. He belonged to Company B, 163 Pennsylvania Infantry.

In 1871 he moved to his farm near Macksburg, and in ’84 he went to Frontier county, Neb., where he remained until last September, when he came here.

He had been sick since April, ’89, with the sciatic rheumatism, which caused his death May 6, 1890.

This life has been one great battle with him but for all, he came out victorious singing “Crowns of Glory I Shall Wear.”

All through his sickness his sufferings was borne with remarkable patience. He would often speak of longing for the home that Christ had prepared for him.

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Peck, and the Masons consigned him to his last resting place beside the soldier’s he so loved in life.

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