Eura E. Patterson Forbes (1848-1905)

BARNES, DAY, FORBES, HINKLE, PATTERSON, PERKINS

Posted By: Volunteer Paul French
Date: 1/14/2007 at 21:21:24

MRS. ANDREW FORBES.

Eura E. Patterson was born on what is known as the John Skinner farm south of Birmingham, Van Buren county, Iowa, Aug. 15, 1848, and was married to Andrew Forbes, April 21, 1864. To them were born seven children, one of whom died in infancy and one daughter, Mary, died in 1895. She leaves to mourn her death her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Nannie E. Hinkle, four sons, R. W., James E., Byron G. and Grover C., also two sisters, Mrs. M. J. Barnes, of Lake View, Ore., and Mrs. Harriet Day of Bridgeport, Cal. She died at her home near Sagauche, Colorado, Oct. 2, 1905, aged 57 years, 1 month and 27 days, and was buried in the Forbes cemetery, near Mt. Zion, Van Buren county, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 7, 1905, Rev. C. E. Perkins of Keosauqua being in charge of services.

Source: undated newspaper clipping with no source cited contained in “Family History” of the Barker, Sherod, and Forbes families and descendants compiled by Bernadine Forbes Clark, December 1980.