Age - Over 60

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ID - 21a
Birth -1838
Death -1903

Gender - Male

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[1]Anthony Patton 1/22/1903. Died of pulmonary disease. Served as a member of Braxton’s battery in the Civil war. 62 years old. always a consistent, loyal Christian died member S. George’s. The widow is a daughter of John Coakley
1/23/1903. Funeral to be Sat. 3 pm

[2]
Name:    Anthony Patton
Titles and Terms:
Event Type:    Census
Event Date:    1900
Event Place:    ED 89 Fredericksburg city Ward Lower, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States
Birth Date:    Jun 1838
Birthplace:    Virginia
Relationship to Head of Household:    Head
Father’s Birthplace:    Virginia
Mother’s Birthplace:    Virginia
Race:    White
Gender:    Male
Marital Status:    Married
Years Married:    19
Marriage Year (Estimated):    1881
Mother of how many children:
Number of Living Children:
Immigration Year:
Page:    26
Sheet Letter:    A
Family Number:    542
Reference ID:    35
GS Film number:    1241734
Digital Folder Number:    004117940
Image Number:    00197
Household    Gender    Age    Birthplace
Head     Anthony Patton     M    62    Virginia
Wife     Virginia B Patton
F    48    Virginia

[3]
Son of Dr. William Farley Patton and Harriet S. Buck; brother of William Farley Patton, Jr, who died in infancy in 1836.
Married Virginia B. Coakley.

Postwar, having returned to Fredericksburg, he was a merchant living at 407 Hanover Street.

Braxton’s Company, Fredericksburg Virginia Light Artillery, M. Johnson’s Brigade, Artillery, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence Fredericksburg, Va.; 5′ 7″.
Enlisted on 3/8/1862 as a Private, he mustered into VA Fredericksburg Light Artillery.
Absent, sick 3/1862.
He was discharged from combat duty due to disability, chronic rheumatism, on 11/26/1862.
Serving in the 3rd Departmental Local Defense Troops, he was detailed 6/1863 Richmond, VA. as a clerk in the Medical Director’s Office.

The 3rd Infantry Regiment Local Defense Troops was organized in September 1864, from the 3rd (Departmental) Infantry Battalion Local Defense Troops. Its members were from the War Department, Post Office Department, Treasury Department, Quartermaster Department, Medical Purveyor’s Department, and men under the age of eighteen.
[4] City Weigher

Sources

[1] Virginia Star 22 Jan 1903 3×1
[2] https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MMJJ-NM5
[3] find a grave
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9729016
[4] Virginia Star 6/1/1895 3×2

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