Crider - McDowell Family Tree

George Patterson was one of those who made the move. He had been born in St. Francis, Missouri, 7 January 1843 to James and Sarah THOMPSON Patterson according to his death certificate. His Civil War discharge gave his place of birth as St. Genevieve County, Missouri. George was captured as a young man by the troops of Confederate Jeff Thompson, the Swamp Fox of the Civil War, and impressed into the Confederate Army. He escaped from Island 10 in the Mississippi river and had gone back to Kentucky where he enlisted in the 4th Regiment Tennessee Infantry (USA). After the War, George married Margaret J. Brannan of Greene County on 15 June 1868. They had been recorded in the Census of 1870 with daughter Alice age 1. This family group in the move would have been:

George Patterson Age 28
Margaret BRANNAN Age 27
Laura Alice Age 2
Total 3

The Tale of a Wagon Train of Immigrants from Greene Co, TN to Howell Co., MO - 1871

Several other families from the Bright Hope Furnace area of Greene County, unrelated to our family members, came later to join the Greene County immigrants. They included members of the Ottinger, Nease, Smith, and Rader families.

The three who made the trip together from Tennessee to Missouri in the 1871 Wagon Train and who are now lying in the Pine Grove Cemetery, just west of Willow Springs, Missouri, are George Patterson, Daniel Boles, and Thomas Jefferson Ferguson. They had brought the name for Pine Grove Church and Cemetery with them from the their former home in the Bright Hope Furnace Area of Greene Co., TN.

Refer: http://www.rootsweb.com/~tngreene/1871wagontrain.html

(Provided by Audrey Steffee)