- 1858 DEATH: Gravestone says "Mary Patterson, D. Sept. 2, 1858, Aged 64y 8m." This would make her birthday as 2 Jan 1794, not August as in Randle. Mrs. J. Howard Wilkens, ed., Partial List of Tombstone Inscriptions from Cemeteries Located in Jay County, Indiana, (Portland, Indiana: Mississinewa Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, no date), 75, "Mary Patterson, D. Sept. 2, 1858, Aged 64y 5m." Marc Wheat copied the month as "8m."
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