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James Samuel Patton

Birth	:	3 Nov 1919 Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death	:	5 Nov 2007 Caroline County, Virginia, USA
Burial	:	Bernard-Robb Family Cemetery, Port Royal, Caroline County, USA
Description	:	James Samuel Patton, 88, of Gaymont near Port Royal, died Monday, Nov 5, 2007. A native of Bridgeville, Pa., he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to take a clerical position with the Navy Ordnance Laboratory. At the close of WW II, he served for a short period in the Army of Occupation in Japan. Mr. Patton retired in 1981 after 36 years as financial secretary/business manager of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and lived for many years in Alexandria, Va. He was married to Frances Bernard Upton, whose family owned Gay Mont since the 1700s. Prior to her... Read More	James Samuel Patton, 88, of Gaymont near Port Royal, died Monday, Nov 5, 2007. A native of Bridgeville, Pa., he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1941 to take a clerical position with the Navy Ordnance Laboratory. At the close of WW II, he served for a short period in the Army of Occupation in Japan. Mr. Patton retired in 1981 after 36 years as financial secretary/business manager of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and lived for many years in Alexandria, Va. He was married to Frances Bernard Upton, whose family owned Gay Mont since the 1700s. Prior to her death in 1981, they had given the property and contents of the house to the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, retaining a life estate for themselves. Mr. Patton is survived by one sister, Patricia Lawrence of Thiensville, Wis., and five nieces and nephews. . . . . [the funeral service was held at the St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Port Royal at 2 p.m., Saturday, November 10, 2007 with the Rev. John Wall officiating. Interment followed in the family cemetery at Gay Mont.] . . . . Jim Patton and his late friend Chet Bolling were possibly the two finest Bowling family historians since Governor Wyndham Robertson. They were also gentlemen of the first order who always, without fail, had time to help others--even complete strangers--struggling with the complexities and contgroversies of Bolling genealogy. Jim's connection to the family was through marriage. His late wife Frances Bernard Robb Upton (d. 1981) was a Pocahontas descendent by way of the oldest son of Col John and Elizabeth Blair Bolling, Thomas. Frances and Jim resided at "Gay Mont" in Caroline Co., VA, a house in which her Bolling ancestors had lived since 1816 when Jane Gay Robertson married John Hipkins Bernard, whose family built the place in the 1790s. Jim Patton's contributions to Bolling family history spanned decades. Perhaps the most significant research project associated with his name had to do with his discovery, in 1965, of the notes of Annie Pratt in the Bolling files at the Volta Bureau for the Deaf in Washington, DC. According to Jim's account, "Much of the information was collected by a Mrs. Pratt (of Mass.) for Dr. Alexander Graham Bell in connection with his interest in the history of early schooling for the deaf of which Thomas Bolling and his son, William, were pioneers. Mrs. Pratt talked and corresponded with members of the Bolling family in and around Richmond and Goochland Counties in the Spring of 1900. A search was made for family Bibles and from the following records it appears one or more were available at the time, but not now extant." The result of Jim's research was the "Volta List," naming all 18 children of John and Elizabeth Blair Bolling--even those who died young and (consequently) had not been listed in Wyndham Robertson's 1887 book. The names corresponded to those copied by Blair Bolling from the original Bolling family "Cobbs Bible" in the 1830s. We now know--thanks to DNA studies and other research--that Jim Patton actually resolved the "blue Bolling" controversy over 40 years ago. Those who had the good fortune to know James Samuel Patton know that his picture should appear beside the dictionary definition of "gentleman." those who never knew him will nonetheless benefit from his careful, meticulous research for as long as there in interest in the remarkable annals of Pocahontas and her Bolling descendents. There is much to be thankful for in the life of this good man. [NOTE 1: Taken almost verbatim from a post by FRED HOF on Gen Forum, a Genealogy Forum with the following URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/bolling/messages/3052.html] NOTE 2: I had the honor of meeting and getting to know Jim Patton in 1988-89 during my final assignment as an Army Officer at Fort A. P. Hill. Much of the article tracks with stories he told me and it was always a pleasure to visit and talk with him. I recall distinctly that even in the late 1980s, with current computer/word-processing technology then beginning to take hold, he would write neat, typewritten thank-you notes with a manual Royal or Underwood typewriter, on which he still performed all of his correspondence. Any contributions to make this memorial more complete and accurate, particularly with accurate links to Jim's parents, birthdate, and photos will be most welcome.

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