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Descendents of William Messer (4 Dec 1799 – 21 Sep 1874)
and Alice (or Alison) Brown (~1795 – 19 Sep 1877)

Third Immigrant Generation
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55. Sarah Ann "Annie" Brown. Daughter of George W. Brown & Alice Eleanor Messer. Born 20 Apr 1862 in Harvey. Died 24 Aug 1945 in Tweedside. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Religion Presbyterian.

    Copied from newspaper obituary:

    Death Aged Woman.   Mrs James Patterson, Harvey Station, 82, Had Been Ill Long time.

    Harvey Station, N.B., Aug 30 -- Tweedside lost one of its oldest and most respected residents on Thursday, August 24th, when Mrs James Patterson passed away at the home of her son, Hazen Patterson.   She was 82 years of age and a life long resident of this place.

    Mrs Patterson was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church and was active in the work of the church and community until her health failed.   During an illness of several years she was tenderly and devotedly cared for by her family, particularly by her daughter-in-law, Mrs Hazen Patterson. She leaved to mourn, two sons:   Hazen and Carl Patterson, Tweedside, one daughter, Mrs Alice Lynch, Portland, Me., two sisters, Mrs Ida Burrell, Millinocket, Me., and Mrs Marshall Gass, York Mills, N.B., five brothers, Walter Brown, Boston, Mass., Stephen Brown, Sterling Brown, York Mills, N.B., Charles Brown, Saint John, N.B., and Thomas Brown of Thomaston, N.B.   There are eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

     She married James Wesley "Jim" Patterson, son of William Patterson & Sarah Ann Jane Dibblee, 22 Jun 1892 in York Co., NB. Born 29 Feb 1844 in Harvey. Died 19 May 1918 in Tweedside. Buried in Harvey Settlement Cemetery. Occupation Farmer. Religion Presbyterian.

 

    PANB   #F15552, p. 565: "James Patterson and Mary Swan on Dec 22, 1864 by Samuel Johnson, witnesses William G. Patterson and Isabella Thompson."

 

    Jim and Mary first lived on Hanwell Road, then moved to Tweedside to the farm later known as the Hazen Patterson farm.

 

    After the death of his first wife, Mary Swan, Jim married Sarah Ann Brown.   There were four children from the first marriage, and four children from the second marriage.

    Copied from newspaper obituary - 1918:

    James Patterson

    Harvey Station, May 21 -- James Patterson, a well known and respected farmer of Tweedside, died at his home there on Sunday morning after an illness of more than a year.   He was the second son of William Patterson, one of the pioneers of Harvey, and was in the seventy-fifth year of his age.   He is survived by four sons and two daughters and also by his wife.   His daughters are Mrs Charles L. Brown, of Manners Sutton and Miss Alice at home.   Two of his sons, Hazen and Carrol, reside at Tweedside, William in Boston, and Abner at Rumford Falls, Me.

    The funeral took place from his late residence at Tweedside yesterday afternoon and was conducted by Rev. Mr Grant of McAdam, in the absence of the pastor, Rev. J. F. McKay, who has gone to New Glasgow, N.S., to attend the funeral of a relative.

    They had the following children:

  205   i.   George "Hazen" Patterson

  206   ii.   Carroll McLean Patterson

  207   iii.   Thomas "Sterling" Black Patterson

  208   iv.   Alice Arlene Isabell Patterson

 

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