The Patrick Family by Stephen B. Patrick
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You are invited to explore the Patrick family research of Stephen B. Patrick. I received an information package and genealogy chart from him in January 1999. I am grateful for his insight, countless hours of research and taking the time to write the narrative.. All of the work was done by him and any use of his work should be credited.
My Great-Grandmother is Girtha Patrick, daughter of Ira Patrick and Mary Frances Kiper. Ira is the son of David Palmer Patrick and Mary Hull. David is the son of Ira Patrick and Laura Tarpenning. Ira is the son of Moses Patrick and Clarissa Geer. Moses is the son of John Patrick and Rebeccah Wiley. John Patrick is the son of Matthew Patrick and Mary.
It is documented that Matthew, Mary and their children immigrated from Northern Ireland in 1724. Family tradition claims the family is Scots-Irish and originally from Dumfries, Scotland. They were only in Ireland on their way to America. Stephen Patrick covers the speculative aspects of this claim in detail.
My Patrick family settled in Western, later Warren, Massachusetts. The home of Matthew Patrick still stands, although no Patrick’s reside in it. Matthew Patrick voted in favor of Massachusetts signing the US Constitution when he represented Warren as a delegate to to the Massachusetts General Court.
Moses Patrick, son of Matthew is an immigrant in his own right. He left the family home in Massachusetts and was an early settler in the Northern Vermont/Lower Canada region. He later migrated with his young family from there to Union, Ohio in 1812 during a time of political unrest in the border region .
Ira Patrick, the son of Moses and Clarissa, was noted as a high intelligent man. He died by suicide in Ohio. His wife Laura and their five children grew up in the home of Moses and Clarissa.
David Patrick, Ira’s son, moved to Kansas, married Mary Hull and had two children. He joined the Union army, was injured at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry and died in an Enemy Hospital in Camden, Arkansas. He never saw his son Ira David Patrick.
Ira David Patrick lived in Kansas, Nebraska, Washington, Idaho, California and Oregon. He wrote often to the newspaper back in Kansas of his travels.
My great grandma Girtha, was the fourth of six girls and an older brother. She was born in Kooskia, Idaho. She traveled from Idaho to Oregon in a covered wagon as a young child and flew in a jet plane to Israel as a woman. I have written a short story based on what I know about her life. I have hopes of editing it and making it available as an ebook.
Girtha Rising – https://docs.google.com/document/d/18X-Ym3Fusc3kupjGjg2uH-dQmFaqzETErd1nriXLs9c/edit?usp=sharing
Researching my Patrick family has taken me on journeys across our country. I traveled the road from Swanton, Vermont to Union, Ohio. I have a rosebush that comes from a clipping I picked at the gravesite of Moses and Clarissa. I listened to the constant wind blowing across Darby Plain. I thought of my Patrick family always moving, pushing westward, going just a little further in each generation until they made it from the Atlantic to the Pacific.