Lucy Ann Gee Patton

PATTON, Lucy Ann GEE – Body of Mrs. Patton Buried in Prairie Grove Cemetery – The remains of Mrs. Lucy A. Patton, who died at Van Buren Friday afternoon, were brought to Prairie Grove Sunday and that afternoon were laid to rest in the Prairie Grove cemetery beside the body of her husband, Col. T.J. Patton.
Mrs. Patton was a former resident of this community and was the relict of the late Col. T.J. Patton and for a long period of years lived on their farm one mile Northwest of Prairie Grove. Later she went to Fayetteville to reside there until recently when she and her daughter, Miss Alice Patton, went to Van Buren to spend the winter with her adopted son, Max Patton.
Mrs. Patton was 89 years of age and had been in feeble health for some time. Shortly after going to Van Buren she contracted pneumonia and her illness was only of a few days duration.
She is survived by three daughters, Miss Alice Patton, who lived with her mother; Mrs. J.E. Mock of Houston, Texas, Mrs. C.A. Jenkins of Keokuk, Iowa and one adopted son, Max Patton of Van Buren, all of whom were present at the funeral and burial except Mrs. Jenkins.
The funeral services were held at the Cumberland Presbyterian church Sunday afternoon at two o’clock, conducted by Rev. N.M. Ragland of Fayetteville and the burial made immediately afterward in the Prairie Grove cemetery. [Prairie Grove Herald 10/26/1922]
In Memory of Mrs. Lucy Ann Patton (Written for the Herald) – Was born October 18th, 1835, Nashville, Tennessee. Died October 20th, 1922 at Van Buren, Arkansas. Her father, Edmund Gee, moved to Andrew County, Missouri in 1838. She was there married to Thomas Jefferson Patton, December 24, 1849. To this union were born four daughters and a son. (**** unreadable***) Mrs. C.A. Jenkins, Keokuk, Iowa, Miss Lucy Alice Patton, Van Buren, Arkansas.
In 1866 the family moved to Washington County, Prairie Grove, Arkansas and settled on a farm, living a number of years in the vicinity. The family moved to Fayetteville where, Misses Alice and Mattie finished their education in the State University.
In 1889 the parents adopted an orphan boy, Max, who is now known as G.M. Patton of Van Buren, Arkansas. The death of Col. T.J. Patton was in 1898. Miss Alice and her mother have resided in Fayetteville since 1905. For several years Mrs. Patton has been in ill health, much of her time confined to her room and bed. Miss Alice has patiently, tenderly and kindly cared for her mother, with all the loving devotion of a daughter.
Not long since this adopted son Max Patton came to see Miss Alice and her mother and earnestly insisted that they should come to his home that he might help care for the sick mother; he wanted to do something for her for the love and devotion they had given him when he most needed it. So she went to Van Buren to stay with Max and his kind wife. But the reaper came to claim her and transplant her in the fields of light. She quietly and peacefully laid down the burden of flesh –went out in the great unknown to live in the Heavenly Kingdom. Miss Alice and her sister, Mrs. J.E. Mock, were with her. Her life has been one of quiet gentile kindness, a thoughtful loving mother.
The body arrived in Fayetteville 4 p.m. October 21 and was taken to the First Christian Church of which she was a member, where her pastor, Rev. Lloyd Ellis, paid a touching tribute to her memory. The body remained in the church, with friendly watchers, till 9 o’clock Sunday morning, when it was conveyed to Prairie Grove –to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church where services had been held twenty years ago for her husband. At two o’clock friends gathered at the church and a beautiful service was conducted by Rev. M.N. Ragland assisted by a select choir who sang the song she loved so dearly in the long ago.
Active Pall Bearers were Messrs. Douglas Cummings, Bert Morton, Mack Parks, Porter Pittman, Mack Rollans and Ed Rogers –Honorary – W.D. Rogers, Dr. E.G. McCormick, J.H. Zellner, F.H. Carl, S.R. Wilson and D.N. McCormick. [Prairie Grove Herald 10/26/1922]