Abraham Patton ¹

  General Notes:

ABRAHAM PATTON, carpenter and builder located in Alert, Salisbury township, was born near his present home, Jan. 31, 1840, son of Linton and Elizabeth (Reel) Patton, the former of whom was a blacksmith by trade and later worked as a laborer. He died in January, 1867, aged seventy-one years, his widow surviving until 1879, and dying at age of eighty years. They were interred in the Pequea Presbyterian Church cemetery. The following children made up their family; John, deceased; Lydia, late wife of Henry Coffroad; Samuel, aged 79 years, a resident of Earl township; Elizabeth, residing in Salisbury township; Margaret, deceased wife of William Bryson, of Salisbury township; Catherine the widow of William Rishel, living in Compassville; Rachel, married to John Elmer, of Salisbury township; Gabel, deceased; Jane, married to Henry Ammon, of Gap. Ann, married first to Henry Wademan and second to Abraham Miller, of Reading; Henry , a farmer of Salisbury township; Abraham; Mary, married to Harrison Ross, excounty registrar of Chester county; Harriet married to John Ross a farmer of Chester county; and Leah.

Abraham Patton attended the district schools and remained at home with his father until his marriage, after which he began housekeeping and followed the carpenter trade. On Aug. 19, 1861, at Lancaster, he enlisted in Co. A 79th P.V.I. and served under Captains William Kendrick, James Benson and Edward McCafferty, faithfully performing the duties of a soldier for a period of three years. Mr. Patton participated in some of the most serious and decisive battles of the war, including Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, going then with Sherman to Atlanta; he was discharged on account of the termination of his enlistment, June 19, 1863 Mr. Patton was severely wounded in the right side by a musket ball, in the battle at Perryville and was kept for seven weeks in the hospital at New Albany, Ind.., After his return from the war he worked at the carpenter trade and now is one of the leading builders of the locality.

In January, 1870 Mr. Patton was married in New Holland, to Miss Mary Palmer, born in Earl township, in September, 1842, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bowers) Palmer, of Earl township, who had these children: Ann deceased wife of Jane Dunlap ; Rebecca, married to Israel Gabel, Maria the widow of Solomon Shaffer, of Earl township; Mary, the wife of Mr. Patton; Margaret, deceased wife of John K. Diem, of Leacock; Octermer, a carpenter of Chester county; and Amos deceased. Mr. Palmer was a farmer of earl township and died in 1867 at the age of 71 years, his widow dying in 1879, aged eighty years. they were buried in the Pequea Presbyterian Church cemetery.

To Mr. and Mrs. Patton these children were born; Clara, the wife of William Kiser, a cigar-maker, in Lancaster; Anna the wife of Elwood Menzer, a painter, in New Holland; Lillie, Henry and Samuel, at home.

In politics Mr. Patton is a staunch Republican. As a business man, he is regarded as reliable and competent and as a citizen, he commands the respect of the community.

Abraham married Mary Parmer, daughter of Joseph Parmer and Elizabeth Bowers, in 1870 in New Holland, , PA. (Mary Parmer was born in Sep 1842 in Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA.)