Amanda (Brown) Patrick
1813 MS - 1882 MI
Daughter of Moses Brown & Nancy Perkins
My Half 4th Great Aunt
Amanda (Brown) Patrick was a woman who always had a houseful of her extended family members. The daughter of Moses Brown and his second wife, Nancy (Perkins) Brown; she was born 13 May 1813 in Marion County, Mississippi. She married Samuel A. Patrick who was born in 1809 in Ohio.[i]Amanda’s sister, Nancy, married Samuel’s brother, Johnson.
In 1850 Samuel and Amanda were living in Jefferson, Cass County, Michigan. Samuel was a farmer whose real estate was valued at $1,200. Amanda was 37 with three children at home. Two of those children were born in Ohio: James Patrick, 14 years old; and Eliza Patrick, 9 years old. Their youngest child was born in Michigan: Elma Patrick, four years old. Amanda’s widowed mother, Nancy (Perkins) Brown, and her sister, Samantha Brown, were living with the family.[ii]
In 1850 they farm included:
50 acres of improved land
70 acres of unimproved land
$1,000 value of farm
$50 value of machinery
2 horses
3 milch cows
3 other cattle
25 sheep
8 swine
$185 value of livestock
200 bushels of wheat
300 bushels of Indian corn
Amanda had sorrows in her life. In 1851 her daughter, ten-year-old Eliza Patrick died.[iii]This would not be the last tragedy.
In 1860 Samuel and Amanda had a houseful again. Daughter, Elma, was still at home and Amanda’s mother was still with them. Two unknowns were also living with them in Jefferson: James M. Reed, 14; and Resana Brown, 4.[iv]
Samuel, 60 years old, was still farming in 1870. Their property was then valued at $6,000. Daughter, Elma, and Elizabeth Patrick [daughter of Johnson Patrick and Nancy P. (Brown) Patrick], a niece, lived with them.[v]Samuel A. Patrick died in 1878. He is buried in Reames-Norton Cemetery in Cassopolis, Cass Co., Michigan.[vi]
In 1880 Amanda was still in Cassopolis, taking in boarders to support the family. Her daughter, Elma, and grandson, Rolfe Patrick, lived with her.[vii]Amanda (Brown) Patrick died in 1882.[viii]
Elma moved to Iowa. In 1900 she lived in Nevada, Iowa with her son, Rolfe, who was a hardware merchant. The census report showed Elma to be divorced.[ix]In 1910 Elma and her son were still living together in Nevada, Iowa. He owned the hardware store where he worked and he was married to Anna. They had a three-year-old son named Robert Patrick.[x]
Elma A. Patrick died in 1925. She is buried with her parents and her sister in Reames -Norton Cemetery with Eliza and Samuel.[xi]
[i]Criminger, Adrianne Fortenberry. The Fortenberry families of southern Mississippi: with early records concerning the Faulkenberry/Fortenberry families of the South. Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1984. Print.
[ii]1850 US Census, MI, Cass, Jefferson; ancestry.com; Samuel Patrick Family.
[iii]Find A Grave; MI, Cass, Cassopolis; Reames-Norton Cemetery; ancestry.com; Samuel A. Patrick, Amanda B. Patrick, Eliza Patrick and Elma Patrick.
[iv]1860 US Census, MI, Cass, Jefferson; ancestry.com; Samuel Patrick family.
[v]1870 US Census, MI, Cass, Jefferson; ancestry.com; Samuel Patrick family.
[vi]Find A Grave; MI, Cass, Cassopolis; Reames-Norton Cemetery; ancestry.com; Samuel A. Patrick, Amanda B. Patrick, Eliza Patrick and Elma Patrick.
[vii]1880 US Census, MI, Cass, Cassopolis; ancestry.com; Amanda Patrick family.
[viii]Find A Grave; MI, Cass, Cassopolis; Reames-Norton Cemetery; ancestry.com; Samuel A. Patrick, Amanda B. Patrick, Eliza Patrick and Elma Patrick.
[ix]1900 US Census, Iowa, Story, Nevada; ancestry.com; Elma A. Patrick family.
[x]1910 US Census, Iowa, Story, Nevada; ancestry.com; R S Patrick family.
[xi]Find A Grave; MI, Cass, Cassopolis; Reames-Norton Cemetery; ancestry.com; Samuel A. Patrick, Amanda B. Patrick, Eliza Patrick and Elma Patrick.
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