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Good morning everyone,
I realized I left off some information sent to me by Dee Hall butterflywings@bellsouth.net -some of which was sent to her by Linda Patterson, so here we go again with more information about the Patterson family of Coosa. I included a letter from Linda underneath here. It was indeed I who made the notation about the idea of James A. being possible James Adam Patterson. I made the suggestion on experience dealing with family names. How many people in those days had middle names (sometimes as many as 3 or 4) and never used their first name? many people did that.

Hi Susan, I'm Linda Patterson in Clanton, AL. I was the one who sent some of the material used on the blog to Dee Hall (I sent her the family group sheets and Drucilla Patterson's genealogy letter, which confirmed fact Faithy Knight's maiden name was Baker). My husband's ggg gf was Adam Patterson and his gg gf was James Patterson, whose 1st two wives were Knights (Mary and Elizabeth). My husband descends from James' third wife, Martha Pope. We have hit a "brick wall" on finding Adam's parents. It seems as though the early records of Abbeville, SC have been lost to fire. But I wanted to let you know that our Adam was indeed the brother of William Patterson, who died in Montgomery Co., AL about 1836. I have not personally read William's will, but I had a telephone call from one of his descendants who found it in Montgomery and copied some of the pages (I think it was quite long). It's because of William's will that we know he and Adam were siblings. No other mention of other brothers/sisters were in his will. Dee Hall asked me recently to visit the Coosa County Blog that you wrote on the Knight-Baker families. Now this caught my attention: On the 1850 Coosa Co. census- the Knights, Bakers, and Pattersons all lived next to each other. 516. Patterson Adam 53 SC farmer 500 Milly 52 Felix 11 AL (Minutes 7/601 5 Mar 1862 Albert, Eliza and Jane Patterson minor heirs of Joshua Patterson, their grandfather Adam Patterson gdn. Bond $100 with Milley and Silas Patterson and William Connaway) His full name be James A. Patterson. If so he is the brother in law to Milly Patterson house 259 whose husband William died. ........................... ****** (my notes about this addition... on the original census, the notes added are ("Minutes 7/601....about the minor heirs of Joshua Patterson... and William Connaway)" Did you add the information "His full name (may) be James A. Patterson. If so he is the brother in law to Milly Patterson house 259, whose husband William died." I have never seen Adam's full name on anything. If you made this notation/addition on the census, can you tell me HOW you made the connection between James A. Patterson being our Adam, and being the brother to William. This find/fact could maybe help the family in their research. Just wondering where you may have seen his name as James A. and were able to place James A. and William as brothers. mackandlinda@yahoo.com

John Baker WILL 3 May 1823 Abbeville District SC and probation in April 1824

My interpretation of the will is this:
John Baker was the father of Faithy V. (later Knight), Mary Wallace, Keziah McClennon, Rosannah Wallace, John Baker, William Baker, Joseph Baker, and maybe Elizabeth Baker but am not sure if he meant his wife or a daughter in that part of the will. John´s wife was Elizabeth. Mary, Keziah and Rosannah were already married and had been given large doweries and therefore received only one dollar each in the will. John Baker his son should be executor but a Josiah Patterson Jr. signs a probate statement April 1824. Because I have several pages and I am not sure which page is which- I have put them all here lest I leave something out. They may not be in the right order.
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John Baker Will
Abbeville District SC
3 May 1823

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Letter from a descendant-
Susan,

When I first began researching and read the 1890 publication about Noel Baker in De Soto Parish, La., I surmised that the father of Joseph Cannon Baker was William Baker and that the father of Rebecca Knight was Enoch Knight. With further research I found that Richard Lee Knight was Rebecca's father and that Enoch Asbury was her brother; however, until your revelation that John Baker was father of both Joseph and Faithy and that Faithy was Baker and not Parker, I was searching for William Baker as father of Joseph.

From the one page of John Baker's will I find two siblings other than Joseph and Faithy, viz., William and John. John must be the eldest child as he is given 1/2 the property and then named again with Elizabeth (wife or daughter)? and the other children to be given an equal share of the remaining property. Elizabeth had been named earlier as wife.

I am unsure who the Mary Wallice, Rosannah Wallice and Heziah (sp?) McClennon are. They were each give one dollar.

Here I am going to quote from the Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890.

"Noel P.(Peyton) Baker is the present efficient justice of the peace in Ward 3, DeSoto Parish, La., and is also engaged in tilling the soil, his plantation, which is seven miles southwest of Mansfield consisting of 160 acres, all of which he has obtained by his own unaided efforts. He was born in Coosa County, Ala., in 1848, and is a son of Joseph Cannon and Rebecca (Knight) Baker, who were born in South Carolina in 1804 and 1807, respectively, their marriage taking place in 1825. They first removed from their native State to Georgia and thence to Alabama, thence, in 1866, to De Soto Parish, La. Mr. Baker died here the following year, having been a member of the Methodist Church, and his widow, who survives him, is also a member. He was a wheelwright and blacksmith and socially was a member of the A. F. & A. M. His father, William Baker, the grandfather of Noel Peyton was born in England and died in South Carolina. Enoch Knight, the mother's father, spent his life in Georgia and died in Alabama. Noel P. Baker is the tenth of eleven children, four sons and two daughters living, and was reared on a farm, receiving a common-school education. He came with his parents to De Soto Parish, and was here married in 1873 to Miss Martha B., daughter of Thomas and Dorinda Lawrence, the former of whom was born in South Carolina and the latter in Alabama. About the year 1857 they came to De Soto Parish, and here Mr. Lawrence passed from life in 1872, his widow dying in 1889, she being an earnest member of the Presbyterian Church. He was a soldier in the Confederate army for four years. Mrs. Baker was born in Alabama in 1856 and her marriage with Mr. Baker has resulted in the birth of five children, two sons and two daughters living. They have resided on their present farm since 1873. Mr. Baker held the office of constable from 1879 to 1883, and since 1883 he has been justice of the peace; is also road and bridge commissioner and was one of the census enumerators of DeSoto Parish, La., for the United States in June, 1890. He is a Methodist and his wife is a Cumberland Presbyterian. "

Noel and my grandfather Julius were the youngest children of Joseph Cannon and Rebecca and probably had heard the names William Baker and Enoch Knight and gave those names in error. Of course the biographical writings are not always accurate (above), but at least, it gives clues for further research.
Joan Troegel
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