Easton H. Patterson
1921 History of Hancock County Illinois
by Charles J. Scofield
Page 1314PATTERSON, Easton H., now deceased, was at one time prominently identified with the agricultural interests of Hancock County, and he died in the service during the Civil War. He was born in Tennessee in 1837, a son of Thomas and Alvira (Howell) Patterson, natives of Tennessee, who came to Hancock County in 1845, settling in Pilot Grove Township.
Easton H. Patterson was reared in Pilot Grove Township, and attended its schools. There he was married in 1856 to Eveline Wilson, born at Hamilton, Ill., in 1836, a daughter of William and Nancy (Litteral) Wilson, natives of Kentucky, who in 1844, located in Pilot Grove Township, where they lived until their death. After his marriage, Mr. Patterson moved to a farm in Pilot Grove Township, and carried on farming until he enlisted at Fountain Green, in 1862, for service during the Civil War, and while waiting at Quincy, Ill., to be mustered out, he was accidentally killed by escaping gas in his room, in January, 1865, he not having turned it off properly. After his death, his widow lived with her father for many years, and then in 1903, bought a residence at Carthage, moving into it in 1906, and this has since continued to be her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Patterson had the following children: Almeda, who died at the age of fourteen years; William Bishop, who lives in Fountain Green Township; Albert, who lives at Ellsbury1, Mo.; and Otto, who died at the age of two years. Mr. Patterson was a Democrat. Mrs. Patterson is a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and is mostly esteemed in it and in other circles at Carthage.
1 Ellsbury, Mo. is probably Elsberry, Mo.
