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The eight room home was built of bricks manufactured by Brahan's slaves on the site of Sweetwater Creek which lay just below the house. Sweetwater Mansion received its name from the creek and was first occupied by Brahan's son-in-law Robert M. Patton, a post-Civil War governor of Alabama, who completed the mansion in 1835.
In the first federal census in 1810, the Robert Patton family in Fredericksburg enslaved a person. [5] His father or brother Robert Patton Jr. represented Spotsylvania County in the Virginia House of Delegates during the 1820-1821 session. [6] J.M. Patton married the former Margaret ("Peggy") French, daughter of a local family of planters and ...
Robert Miller Patton (July 10, 1809 – February 28, 1885) was an American politician who served as the 20th governor of the Alabama from 1865 to 1868. [ 1 ] He was born July 10, 1809, in Russell County, Virginia .
In November, Elizabeth's father Robert Patton deeded 800 acres (320 ha) of his Carroll County property to Crockett. [101] Crockett sold off most of the acreage to help settle his debts, and moved his family to the remaining acreage on the Obion River , which remained in Carroll County until 1825 when the boundaries were reconfigured and put it ...
Jean Gordon (February 4, 1915 – January 8, 1946) was an American socialite and a Red Cross worker during World War II.A niece by marriage of General George S. Patton, some writers claim she had a long affair with Patton, [2] allegedly beginning years before the war [3] and continuing behind the front lines of wartime Europe. [4]
Mar. 28—HAMILTON — Wensley Roberts El-Hefni was a teenage girl standing in a field in Scotland in 1943 when a Nazi plane flew by so low she could see the face of the pilot, the swastikas on ...
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Elizabeth's first marriage was to James Patton, her cousin, and they had two children, Margaret Ann and George. James Patton was killed in 1813 after he was wounded in the Creek Indian War. During his final minutes before he died, he asked a fellow soldier, Davy Crockett, to deliver his personal belongings back to Elizabeth.